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Ben Bernanke: “Those are the programs which are growing. At the rate we are going, in about 15 years the entire Federal budget will be…”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
Those are the programs which are growing. At the rate we are going, in about 15 years the entire Federal budget will be entitlements and interest.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke warns about the future burden of entitlements on the federal budget.

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