John B. Nelson : Studies in Bankruptcy and the National Debt

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    No wonder we ain't gettin' anywhere in reducing the debt...
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    Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Obama-Boehner Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year
    Saturday, April 09, 2011
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    $38.5B Cuts in Boehner-Obama Deal Less Than 6 Percent of $653.4B In Debt Incurred Already This Fiscal Year
    Saturday, April 09, 2011 - House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and President Barack Obama agreed to deal late Friday evening to keep the government funded through the rest of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September.
     
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    Addendum to prior post...
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    Feds Spent $142B on Thursday Alone—As Pols Dickered Over Cutting $33B or $40B for Rest of Year
    Friday, April 08, 2011 - The federal government spent $142.3 billion on Thursday alone, according to the Daily Treasury Statement released at 4:00 pm on Friday afternoon.
     
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    Student loan debt contributing to bankruptcies...
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    Student debt pushing more people toward bankruptcy, lawyers say
    February 7, 2012, More than four-fifths of bankruptcy attorneys have seen a notable jump in the number of potential clients with student loan debt, the National Assn. of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys says.
     

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