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Re:EFF no longer accepts donations in Bitcoins by anonymoushn on Thursday June 02, 2011 @06:56PM (#2614363)
You might idly slice the size of the official Federal deficit any way you wish - high by comparison to earlier GDP ratios, low in comparison to the GDP ratios of other countries (Japan has a public debt of ~100% of GDP - funny how they have the world's highest ratio here despite their huge trade surpluses).

I don't think it's fair to compare the public debt of one country to the annual deficit of another. It is akin to saying "It's alright that I put $8000 on my CC last month because Bob down the street owes $70,000." While Bob may be in dire straits, he probably didn't accumulate all that debt in the last 8 months.

Trifles aside, It's refreshing to see someone with a very different perspective from my own who realizes what is going on.

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Re:EFF no longer accepts donations in Bitcoins by joe_the_user on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:10PM (#2615014)
Yes that would be an obvious mistake but I simply mis-typed.

Public debt to Public debt, the US is not notably high on relative to other industrialized nations.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_debt

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