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- Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023 November 20, 2024
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- Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
- Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2022
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Federal spending chart
Take a look at this chart from our friends at Cato showing federal government spending as a share of GDP. It breaks out defense (drops by half) and non-defense (doubles) spending trends. You can reach your own conclusions. Mine are … Continue reading
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Obama Budget Factoids. $3.8 biillion = $380 billion per pound = $1.5 billion per page.
We can’t afford this! The Obama 2011 budget proposal was released to the press at 9AM today and to the public at 10AM Available at GPO website at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action Summary: -2450 pages including appendices. -weighs 10 pounds for all four … Continue reading
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