In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and Amnerican power.
The first is the projected deficit in the coming year, nearly 11 percent of the country’s entire economic output. That is not unprecedented: During the Civil War, World War I and World War II, the United States ran soaring deficits, but usually with the expectation that they would come back down once peace was restored and war spending abated...read the rest in nytimes.com
