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link to news.sky.com] US has fallen even further into the red, with its budget deficit reaching a record level.The deficit is expected to hit 1.4 trillion dollars (£877bn) in the 2009 fiscal year, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has announced.
The figure is some $950bn (£595bn) greater than the shortfall recorded the previous year.
The 2009 fiscal year has seen the recession enforce a big drop in tax revenues amid a series of extraordinary government spending.
The bailing out of Wall St and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cost $245bn (£153bn) in emergency spending.
President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill added a further $200bn (£125bn) in costs.
The accumulation of debts smashes the previous record deficit of $459bn (£287bn), set only last year.
President Obama has attributed the dismal US fiscal situation to the financial and economic crisis he inherited.
Last Edited by Flowerpot on 10/07/2009 06:31 PMDid the iron in your blood and calcium in your bones come from a long-ago supernova? Astronomer and writer Carl Sagan thought so. "We are star stuff", Sagan once said.
Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
__Carl Sagan___