Twenty years ago, in 1960, our federal government payroll was less than 13 billion dollars. Today it is 75 billion.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Pursuit of Happyness movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:09:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The federal budget is out of control.
- That deficit is larger than the entire federal budget in 1957.
- And so is the almost 80 billion dollars we will pay in interest this year on the national debt.
- During these 20 years, our population has only increased by 23.3 percent...
- Woo! Man. I got two questions for you: What do you do? And how do you do it?
- Stockbroker. Oh, goodness. Had to go to college to be a stockbroker, huh?
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