The deficit for the first six months of the fiscal year which began on October 1 was 956.80 billion dollars, according to the Treasury's monthly statement of receipts and outlays...Read the whole thing....
...The CBO said its budget deficit estimate for fiscal 2009, which ends on September 30, would be four times the 2008 record shortfall and amount to 13.1 percent of the country's total economic output. (emphasis added)
CBO is the Congressional Budget Office. The national debt is now over $11 Trillion and rising rapidly.
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