How much money?
I got up early this morning and went to the records of the U.S. federal budget. It took the United States of America from 1789 to 1960 to spend the amount of money in this one, a package in the ballpark of $2-2.5 trillion. In fact, it took the U.S. government 178 years, from our ...
I got up early this morning and went to the records of the U.S. federal budget. It took the United States of America from 1789 to 1960 to spend the amount of money in this one, a package in the ballpark of $2-2.5 trillion.
I got up early this morning and went to the records of the U.S. federal budget. It took the United States of America from 1789 to 1960 to spend the amount of money in this one, a package in the ballpark of $2-2.5 trillion.
In fact, it took the U.S. government 178 years, from our founding until 1967, to spend the amount of money contained in the two spending proposals put forward during the first three weeks of the Obama administration.
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