Cost of Wars crosses $1 trillion mark.

[rbranson]

http://www.costofwar.com/

[dgordon]

The scarier fact to me is that in the 2009 budget, the deficit was actually bigger than the total so-called discretionary spending.

That means that a deficit would still exist for 2009 even if the only government spending were for interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal "entitlement" programs.

I believe that's generally referred to as bad.

[trevelyan]

Using the YC scale, that would be somewhere around 67 million startups funded. Which is somewhere around 7 million startups per year.

Although I'm an entrepreneur, I wonder sometimes if it's a suckers game.