Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Federal Government Debt Exceeds One-Trillion-Dollars For Fifth Straight Fiscal Year

The madness has to stop. The madness will stop. The only question is if we can muster the political will (read, vote in fiscal conservatives) in time to put the breaks on ourselves or if we are going to slam into the fiscal wall and have the change forced upon us.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/federal-governments-debt-jumps-more-1t-5th-straight-fiscal-year

"By the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, the new debt accumulated in this fiscal year by the federal government had already exceeded $1 trillion, making this fiscal year the fifth straight in which the federal government has increased its debt by more than a trillion dollars, according to official debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury.

Prior to fiscal 2008, the federal government had never increased its debt by as much as $1 trillion in a single fiscal year. From fiscal 2008 onward, however, the federal government has increased its debt by at least $1 trillion each and every fiscal year.

The federal fiscal year begins on Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. 30. At the close of business on Sept. 30, 2011—the last day of fiscal 2011—the total debt of the federal government was $14,790,340,328,557.15. By June 29, the last business day of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, that debt had grown to $15,856,367,214,324.44—an increase for this fiscal year of $1,066,026,885,767.29.
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