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		pants2 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity tri... If we're going off of a "share of budget" metric then the fastest way to reduce debt share is to increase spending in other areas!

akamaka 15 days ago [–]

I was mistaken to say “share of budget”, because the chart I linked to is actually share of GDP, which hopefully isn’t affected by the problem you pointed out.

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