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Episode 2: The CBO Can't Count

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The CBO Projections of the Federal Debt

CBO has made about 170, 170 projections of what the government's debt is going to be 10 years from now. Of those 170 projections, 170 of them under projected the federal debt and they under projected by a gargantuan sum. If CBO is off by the same amount that it has been in the past, we're actually looking at a federal debt of about $75 trillion.

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