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SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. More to the point,
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 04:51 PM
Jan 2012

an individual household has very little in common with a government responsible for over 300 million citizens and much of the infrastructure of the country. And national security. And a bunch of other things that aren't coming to mind immediately.

You simply cannot compare a federal budget to a household budget.

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