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Deficit as of September 2 blew away 2003 and is second only to the deficit of 2004.
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| 9-7-05
| Babylon Today
Posted on 09/07/2005 5:11:18 AM PDT by babylontoday
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To: babylontoday
Right, and tax cuts don't work.
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posted on
09/07/2005 7:19:48 AM PDT
by
hflynn
( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
To: babylontoday
I'm not even going to waste any more time on you.
JAFT.
(just another f* troll)
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posted on
09/07/2005 7:27:17 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
To: babylontoday
Hey thanks for giving me a headsup on the partisanship of the CBO. I just got this off CNNFN. Thank god it's BS
Katrina could cost 400,000 jobs -- CBO
Congressional Budget Office says storm could also knock up to 1 percent off economic growth.
September 7, 2005: 10:56 AM EDT
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posted on
09/07/2005 8:07:49 AM PDT
by
hflynn
( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
To: hflynn; babylontoday
Right, anything that disagrees with you is partisan, while anything that agrees with you is fact. Fact is the economy is expanding and the deficit as a percentage of GDP is shrinking and you know it. What's important is the DEBT as a percentage of GDP. It is the debt, not the deficit, that we and our children will have to pay interest on forever. The following graph shows the latest CBO projections for the debt as a percentage of GDP:
The actual numbers and sources can be seen at http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/cbobud05.html. If the tax cuts and the fix of the AMT (Alternate Minimum Tax) are extended, the debt is projected to increase from the current 64 percent of GDP to 81 percent of GDP by 2015. Then the Boomers start to retire and our finances really get interesting (see http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/pro2006.html.
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09/08/2005 9:45:01 AM PDT
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remember
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