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From: derome@ai.toronto.edu (Philippe Derome)
Subject: Re: Free Trade: Why is there no 'Plan B'?
Message-ID: <88Nov23.190422est.6397@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Keywords: debt, deficit
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <410@telly.UUCP> <1826@pembina.UUCP> <6761@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1988Nov22.163030.8480@watcsc.uucp>
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 88 19:04:07 EST

In article <1988Nov22.163030.8480@watcsc.uucp> trivia@watcsc.UUCP (Dave Nuttall) writes:
>One thing that people should look at, in my opinion, is that Canada has an annual deficit of about 30 million, while the States pick up over 1 billion dollars of additional debt last year.  Canada has around 25 million people, while the USA comes up with 250 million people.  Therefore, the states with 10 times the people, has over 30 times the annual debt.  (Hmm...)
>...

Perhaps you should multiply your deficit numbers by 1000, and then it will
sound right.
Philippe Derome