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Show Federal budget interest is Over $14 billion The federal budget for fiscal fis-cal 1969 calls for expenditure of $14,400,000,000 interest on the public debt. Compared with a total budget bud-get of $186,100,000,000, this staggering sum for interest may seem relatively small. Yet, it's so large that it's hard to comprehend. So, let's see what that $14,-400,000,000 $14,-400,000,000 could do for the American people if they didn't have to give it to the tax collector. col-lector. That $14,400,000,000 could provide a pair of $12.00 shoes for every other month for a whole year for every man, woman wo-man and child in the United States, or It could provide nice new $15,000 homes for 960,000 families, fami-lies, or It could mean shiny new automobiles for 5.760,000 proud owners, or |