OBAMA'S '09 BUDGET / DEFICIT

*Deficit for FY2009 would represent 12.3 percent of GDP
*2010 deficit would dip to $1.17 trillion
*Obama vows to slash deficit to $533 billion by 2013
*Cost of Iraqi, Afghan wars seen at $140 billion in 2009
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters)-President Barack Obama forecast the biggest U.S. deficit since World War Two in a budget on Thursday that urges a costly overhaul of the healthcare system and would spend billions to arrest the economy's freefall.
--'09 BUDGET SPENDS $11,833 FOR EVERY AMERICAN...
--THE $1.75 TRILLION DEFICIT...
--PDF FILE: 'A New Era of Responsibility'...
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