By the end of the 10-year deal, the federal debt would be much larger than it is today.
Indeed, both the government and its debts will continue to grow faster than the American economy, primarily because the new law does not address federal spending on health care.
That is the reason that the ratings agency Standard & Poors and its rivals still are threatening to remove the United States from their lists of risk-free borrowers, although the other agencies, Moodys and Fitch, both said Tuesday that they would watch and wait for now.
It is also the reason that many conservative Republicans refused to vote for the agreement, calling it a grossly inadequate answer to a pressing problem.
The current deal to raise the debt ceiling doesnt stop us from going over the fiscal cliff, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, wrote Monday in an open letter explaining his opposition. At best, it slows us from going over it at 80 m.p.h. to going over it at 60 m.p.h..
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This little tidbit about the budget, the future of federal spending enrages me like nothing else. That the unabated spending will continue, the budget deficits get much larger than it is today due to the cost of healthcare and no one seems to be aware of it, let alone address it? This is mind-bloggling in the extreme.
Are there any Freepers out there who can make any sense of what is going on?
It seems as if they in fact did kick the can way, way, way far down the road, we can't even see it to remember it.
In other news, the U.S. Department of the Treasury will be contacting the Hasbro company to supply it with more quantitative easing.
“There is something you should know about the deal to cut federal spending that President Obama signed into law on Tuesday:”
What is going on is that after the fact, some NY Times columnist thinks he is telling us something new? What does he think the tea party “terrorists” have been screaming about? Where was this puke BEFORE Obama signed this peice of garbage?
Garbage bill from garbage minds in control. Good thing most of those ash holes in DC were not doctors, pilots, mechanics or structural engineers to come up with reliable solutions. What a cabal of mental lunatics making the decisions of the economic future of America. Lord have mercy but pox on them tyrants.
Journalistic mal-practice. Thats whats going on.
More like malfeasance with malice aforethought.
Oh, now they tell us!! /s
They SURE are SLOW at the NYTimes
Why is this so hard to understand?
Have we forgotten that Obama's last budget proposal called for "trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see?"
Those deficits not only included the repeal of the dreaded "Bush Tax Cuts", they amount to at least $10T in deficits over 10 years. Even Rand Paul's "horrible $4T in budget cuts over 10 years" passed by the house last January could not balance the federal budget.
The entire discussion was nothing more than kicking the can down the road. In other words, "business as usual in D.C."