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If my calculations are correct the ratio of (the deficit + increase in unfunded liabilities) to GDP would come to a little over 53% for 2011. Is that bad?

(Billions)

$6,600 2011 increase in unfunded liabilities for 2011 per JustObserving

+$1,363 2011 deficit per CBO

= $7,963 total deficit, funded & unfunded

÷ $14,958.6 GDP 2011

= 53.23%

As far as the deficit. I guess if we’re forced to use GAAP we’d come up with something like:

$118,900,000,000,000 unfunded liabilities through 2011
+$6,925,000,000,000 2012 additional unfunded liabilities
=$125,825,000,000,000 total unfunded liabilities, May 2012

+ $15,734,000,000,000 debt per Debt Clock (U.S. Treasury)

= $141,558,696,000,000 total liabilities, official + unfunded

÷ 113,616,255  number of U.S. [...]

Obamacare is an outragous attempt to foist a Soviet-style communist health care system onto the American public.

It looks like the Alito, Thomas, and rest of the right-thinking justices on the Supreme Court recognise the fact that in this country good health is not a birth-right – it is a privelage – and a privilege that should only be available to those who are hardworking, wealthy, and smart enough to pay for their own (non-subsidised!) insurance.

We should not try and emulate socialist hell-holes like Australia, Canada or [...]

JOE KLEIN ON DEM HOUSE WIN: ‘VICTORY FOR SOCIALISM’

“It was a victory for socialism,” TIME’s Joe Klein said of last night’s election result in NY-26. A Democrat won a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House from a very conservative district in New York.

For the last two years, Republicans have been lambasting Barack Obama who is right in the middle of the political spectrum, a mild liberal, as being a wild-eyed socialist. Well, there ain’t [...]

The shocking truth about the birthplace of Obama’s policies

By Ezra Klein

(Toshiyuki Aizawa – BLOOMBERG) America is mired in three wars. The past decade was the hottest on record. Unemployment remains stuck near 9 percent, and there’s a small, albeit real, possibility that the U.S. government will default on its debt. So what’s dominating the news? A reality-television star who can’t persuade anyone that his hair is real is alleging that the president of [...]