One Trillion, Four Hundred Twenty Billion Dollars

By: Congressman Frank Lucas (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 11:09 AM  | 

One trillion, four hundred twenty billion dollars.  It’s an astounding number.  It’s more than the entire economy of India and enough to give every man, woman, and child in the United States $4700. It is also our country’s federal budget deficit for 2009.  That means that in the fiscal year 2009, which runs from October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009, the federal government spent | Read More »