Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: gunpoint Message-ID: <772@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:39:18 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxk.772 Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:39:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 07:33:07 EDT References: <1704@inmet.UUCP> <2722@ucbcad.UUCP> <482@teldata.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 The so-called "fair-share" of the deficit was posted by someone as $144,000. First off, I'll assume that this is really supposed to represent a per-capita portion of the national debt, not of the yearly deficit. Even so, a number like $144,000 is way out of whack. I thought our total national debt was somewhat grreater than $1 trillion, or 10 to the 12th dollars. With 230 million or so people (men, women and children), this translates to something more than $4000 - $5000 per person. I seem to recall reading a figure like $8,000 as the current per-capita debt. Thus, even if we are only counting members of the workforce, rather than total population, $144,000 is much too large (This is not to say that $8,000 per person isn't excessive; I think it is.) Bob Schleicher ihuxk!rs55611