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Today on the show we continue our discussion of federal debt, and let me lay out everything we're

going to cover in the show up front so that you can decide if this particular

episode of the show will make a good use of your time or not. Today's show will

not feature much personal commentary. In yesterday's show, I did

add some personal commentary and discussion on to the topic of the ticking time bomb that is

U.S US federal debt.

Today's show, however, will feature very minimal commentary.

If you are a reader, one who prefers

to absorb information in written form, and or if you find that reading is a more

productive use of your time than listening, then all you need to do is simply

reference the two sources cited in the show notes for today's show. Specifically a

Washington Post article from March 5 called the Federal Deficit Ballooned

that start of new fiscal year up 77% from a year before I will read you some excerpts of that article and in addition you can reference the written report that I will be reading to you called a comprehensive federal budget

plan to avert a debt crisis by Brian Reedle. That is the report that was

referenced in yesterday's show. So if you're one who reads go ahead and just use those written resources to help

you make good use of your time and skip the show. If you're one who benefits from

podcasts such as mine to turn otherwise unproductive time into something productive, then I think

you'll enjoy this because I'll give you an audio version that is fairly balanced and

useful and the commentary will just help you to make good use of some of your audio listening time

rather than going and reading these particular resources but it won't offend me if you skip this show.

So because of your preference to read.

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