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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Federal Deficit 1981-2012



This chart from Wikipedia provides the Federal Deficit by year, president and party in control of Congress.

Please note that the deficit has grown continuously, except uder President Clinton, that President Obama inherited a huge debt from President Bush, and that the projected growth through 2012 is decelerating.

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