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Show Government is spelling fantastic sum Congressman Burton reports the cost of operating our government gov-ernment is fantastic. On July 1, the new fiscal year began, and under President Johnson's budget, the government will obligate about $127 billion during dur-ing this fiscal year. This is more money than most of us can comprehend. Maybe this illustration will give you an idea: If you had a spare million dollars in cash and told your wife to go out and spend it on clothes at the rate of $1,000 a day, and not come back until it was all gone, you wouldn't see her for two years and nine months. If you had a billion and told your wife to spend it at the same rate, you wouldn't see her for 2,739 years. So this is just another way of saying it: $127 billion is a lot of money. It has been reported that cataracts cause 22 per cent of the blindness in America. |