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Open letter to Freedomf:

DO YOU NOT READ ANYTHING I POST IN RESPONSE TO THE NUMBERS YOU MAKE UP?

We are NOT $1,000,000,000,000 in debt. We are $11,539,240,768,664.48 in debt. You seem to be confusing the current national deficit with the national debt. Perhaps if you took the time to read anything I post, or any real news source, you'd know the difference between a deficit and a debt.

To help you better understand, here's an excerpt from TreasuryDirect.gov

What is the difference between the debt and the deficit?

The deficit is the fiscal year difference between what the United States Government (Government) takes in from taxes and other revenues, called receipts, and the amount of money the Government spends, called outlays. The items included in the deficit are considered either on-budget or off-budget.

You can think of the total debt as accumulated deficits plus accumulated off-budget surpluses. The on-budget deficits require the U.S. Treasury to borrow money to raise cash needed to keep the Government operating. We borrow the money by selling securities like Treasury bills, notes, bonds and savings bonds to the public.

Now, Freedomf, since the majority of people can't even begin to comprehend the scope of these numbers, I'm providing you with this fun chart to help you and others understand how big these numbers are:

Now that you have an idea the size of numbers we're working with, please understand that the national debt is HUGE. $300k for a plane flyover that Mr. Obama himself didn't issue the order for? Small. $3,000 for a purse? Minuscule. The debt? MASSIVE.

Your share of this massive debt as a United States citizen? $37,642.63. That's what every man, woman, and child would owe if we equally distributed this debt amongst our population.

How big is the debt growing? On average, since September 28, 2007 (this was before I even heard of Barack Obama) $3.87 billion PER day.

What is 3.87 billion? Half the world's population. 50 cents per person in the world. That's 0.035% of the current national debt on a daily basis.

So please, Freedomf, have some perspective with these numbers. Look at them. We first broke a $1 trillion debt in the 1980s. By the time Clinton took over in the early 1990s it was $4 trillion. When bush took over it was $5 trillion. When Obama took over it was $10 trillion. So we all know where the doubling of the national debt occured by just looking at the numbers.

So before you go spouting off your poorly researched misinformation, look at the numbers. Read about them. Understand them. Comprehend them. Learn the terminology.

Also I strongly urge you to perhaps take a writing course at the local community college and learn to form coherent postings and thoughts. Once you can do such, I'll be able to truly decipher your opinions on what you're trying to say and respect those opinions. I have several friends whose politics I do not agree with. I do however hold great respect for them, because they can coherently tell me WHY they disagree with my own ideas. This goes for both my "Liberal" and "Conservative" friends (I'm NEITHER).

There's reasons why people, who generally agree with your overall view points, are coming onto his thread and joking that a Barack Obama stream should be played 24/7 in AWGate. That's because by association, you make them look bad. People will associate everyone of similar ideas with a certain person if that person seems exceptionally crazy and incoherent.

Sincerely,

Byte

Source: Active Worlds forums (yes, shameless copy and paste, but I wanted to keep it for the memories)

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Byte,

You are my hero.

Love,

AbMo