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The FY2013 deficit is $901 billion. If you remove NASA spending, the deficit is $883 billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budget htt
by kens 15y ago
The FY2013 deficit is $901 billion. If you remove NASA spending, the deficit is $883 billion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...
(By the way, I agree with pretty much everything in the grandparent comment.)
- joshAg 15y agoThat requires two sign figs to appear so it's not that far off of what i guestimated (1 order of magnitude off: 9.01E11 - 8.83E11 is 1.8E10). If i had said, "if you remove all NASA spending from the budget, the total budget remains the same out to something like 3 or 4 significant figures," then we would need 3 sig figs to see any impact by NASA's budget (3.803E12 - 1.78E10 = 3.785E12 ~ 3.78 ~ 3.8 ~ 4). I think my ultimate point that NASA's budget is pretty inconsequential to either the budget or the yearly deficit stands since it is only 0.468% of the budget and 1.97% of the deficit.