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Re:The US Budget Explained As a Family’s Household Budget by hkmurakami on Monday October 17, 2011 @02:52AM (#3119459)
Although I detest pie charts, these numbers do probably give us some perspective on just _how_ unbalanced our spending currently is.

Big numbers out of the scope or our everyday lives are difficult to fathom. Perhaps it would have been nicer to adjust the "income" to $40k or so, which is the US median household income.

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Re:The US Budget Explained As a Family’s Household Budget by terinjokes on Monday October 17, 2011 @03:06AM (#3119481) 

  Annual Family Income:				$ 40,000
  Money the family spent: 			$ 70,415
  New debt on the credit card: 			$ 30,415
  Outstanding balance on the credit card:	$263,060
  Budget cuts: 					$    709.67
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