[Huck]

It’s already been a very long recession.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, I’m sure happy that the Democrats passed Porkulus to fight the recession. It’s all about a three letter word according to Joe Biden “J-O-B-S”.

Can’t believe the Democrat spin on Porkulus. They now say that things would have been even worse without it. And they inherited a bad situation, yadda, yadda, yadda.

[Hodar]

The White House calculates that the deficit over the next ten years will be $9 trillion, which is $2 trillion more than estimated in February.

Now I'm just a silly engineer, but if the deficit is going to be $9 Trillion, the origional GUESS was $7 Trillion with an error of $2 Trillion. This is an error of over 28.5%, after a period of 6 months. I have no confidence that the new number is anywhere close to correct.

So, when the White House revises numbers on a 10 year forecast after 6 months; due to an error of 28.5% - I think it's safe to say that they have no idea what they are talking about. What will the error be in 6 more months, 2 years, 5 years or a decade out. Accuracy of this magnitude, left unquestioned, is what got Social Security, Medicare and almost every program managed by the gov't to go bankrupt. If I had errors anywhere near this magnitude in my work, I would be fired.