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How to Understand a $3.8 Trillion Budget

Jake Tapper is the Senior White House Correspondent for ABC News.

He did a great job yesterday breaking down the Administration’s $ 3.8 Trillion budget proposal.   

Tapper knocks off 8 zeros so the “family” budget looks like this:

Spending          $38,000

Income             $29,000

New Debt        $   9,000

Add the new debt to the family’s outstanding credit card debt of $153,000.

Yikes.

You can watch Tapper’s straight forward explanation at http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/what-if-obamas-budget-were-your-familys/

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