Business as Usual in Washington: Another Bloated, Pork-Filled Omnibus Spending Bil

Heritage Foundation ^ | December 10, 2009 | Brian M. Riedl

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Last year's budget deficit of 10 percent of the economy ($1.4 trillion) shattered the post-war record. Far from just a temporary result of the recession, current estimates show the budget deficit rising to nearly $2 trillion by 2019.[2] At that point, the debt would be nearly 100 percent of the economy.

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It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of monet through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

P. J O'Rourke, 1991 (when the deficit was $175 billion)

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Plenty of GOP pork in the bill, as expected.