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Dr. Dale Funderburk: Federal debt is not like your debt

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published October 16, 2013 at 7:00 AM CDT
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Dr. Dale Funderburk

Texas A&M University-Commerce economics professor and interim dean of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship Dr. Dale Funderburk says comparing federal debt to your personal debt is not an "apples-to-apples" comparison, because you can't print money or borrow massive amounts from foreign countries.
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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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