White House says that President Obama has ?reoriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline?

misle

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A budget review released by the White House on Tuesday says that President Obama has ?reoriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline? and then reveals that the administration is planning for the federal government to run cumulative deficits over the next decade of $9.05 trillion, meaning the average annual federal deficit will be $905 billion.

The figures were calculated by the White House Office of Management and Budget and published in a document entitled, ?Mid-Session Review?Budget of the U.S. Government?Fiscal Year 2010.?

?Despite the demands put on the treasury to respond aggressively to avoid economic collapse, the President in February put forward a Budget that re-oriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline,? says the review.

This year?s deficit, according to the review, will be $1.580 trillion. The largest annual deficit in the history of the country before this year was in fiscal 2008, when it was $458.5 billion, according to the OMB.

In other words, the average annual deficit of $905 billion that the White House says the Obama administration now envisions the government running over the next ten years will be almost twice as large as the largest deficit the United States ever ran before Obama entered office.

According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, which is a division of the Treasury Department, the total national debt is now $11.73 trillion. Under the new deficit spending President Obama has planned, the national debt will reach $20.78 trillion in 2019.

More of the story in the link.

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Wow. Just wow. Some one needs to write the definition of financial discipline on a napkin and pass it to Obama.

How are we ever going to dig ourselves out of this pit? The thing this is doing is scaring the hell out of responsible Americans. I know I'm currently selling my house so I can get out of debt because God knows what's going to happen with this economy in the next decade.
 

MotF Bane

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Okay, so he plans to rack up deficits over the next decade... conveniently, quite sufficient to cover himself being in office for a full eight years, and then leave his grand "fiscal discipline" plan to whoever comes into office next. How's that reorientation towards anything? It's the same deficit spending as before, and it still leaves the mess for the next guy.
 

MotF Bane

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Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan
Originally posted by: Sawyer
Onion article?
Mid-Session Review - Budget of the U.S. Government

See pg. 11
"Despite the demands put on the treasury to respond aggressively to avoid economic col­lapse, the President in February put forward a Budget that re-oriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline."

If this is fiscal responsiblity...I'd sure hate to see reckless spending.

If you ask the Obama Administration, that would be what Bush did.
 

Cutterhead

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So much for Obama being fiscally conservative.

How anyone could have ever imagined he would be fiscally conservative in the first place is beyond me.

 

CycloWizard

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Look at me, I'm fiscally disciplined too! *furiously writes blank checks for new houses, cars, TVs, boats, planes, and anything else that sounds good today*
 

RyanPaulShaffer

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"Hey everyone, relax. The 10-year projected budget deficit is only $7 trillion."

"Oops, we really meant $9 trillion..."

;)

:(
 

JKing106

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Now if he was spending it all in killing more brown people like a good Amurican, we could all rest easier. But what's with this help poor people stuff? If Baby Jeebus wanted them to have insurance, he would've miracled to their asses.
 

umbrella39

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Hilarious to see the usual suspects show up in threads they used to avoid like the plague

Transparent hypocrisy FTL :cookie:
 

Atreus21

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Originally posted by: JKing106
Now if he was spending it all in killing more brown people like a good Amurican, we could all rest easier. But what's with this help poor people stuff? If Baby Jeebus wanted them to have insurance, he would've miracled to their asses.

You, my man, have a problem.
 

misle

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
Originally posted by: JKing106
Now if he was spending it all in killing more brown people like a good Amurican, we could all rest easier. But what's with this help poor people stuff? If Baby Jeebus wanted them to have insurance, he would've miracled to their asses.

You, my man, have a problem.

I agree. That is one messed up way of thinking.
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: Atreus21
Originally posted by: JKing106
Now if he was spending it all in killing more brown people like a good Amurican, we could all rest easier. But what's with this help poor people stuff? If Baby Jeebus wanted them to have insurance, he would've miracled to their asses.

You, my man, have a problem.
Not with creating strawmans he doesn't!

 

heyheybooboo

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Originally posted by: misle

?Despite the demands put on the treasury to respond aggressively to avoid economic collapse, the President in February put forward a Budget that re-oriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline,? says the review.

This year?s deficit, according to the review, will be $1.580 trillion. The largest annual deficit in the history of the country before this year was in fiscal 2008, when it was $458.5 billion, according to the OMB.

In other words, the average annual deficit of $905 billion that the White House says the Obama administration now envisions the government running over the next ten years will be almost twice as large as the largest deficit the United States ever ran before Obama entered office.

According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, which is a division of the Treasury Department, the total national debt is now $11.73 trillion. Under the new deficit spending President Obama has planned, the national debt will reach $20.78 trillion in 2019.

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Wow. Just wow. Some one needs to write the definition of financial discipline on a napkin and pass it to Obama.

Increase in the Federal Debt

Last 219 days of the Bush Administration: $1,238,263,124,784.19

First 219 days of the Obama Administration: $10,915,098,92,221.60



(Unified Budget Supluses from FY1998-FY2001) + (Starve the Beast) + (doubling the National Debt over 7 years) + (phony Tax Receipt projections) + (wars - Wars - WARS) + (EGTRRA and JGTRRA) + (not indexing the AMT for inflation) + (unfunded Big Pharma drug programs) ? Balanced Budget from FY2010-FY2018


Your interest in improving the fiscal condition of the Federal Gov't is a 1/2-inch deep and 10 miles wide, isn't it?

What I see is a constant effort to affix (false) blame instead of examining the conditions that got us here and developing solutions to address the underlying fiscal issues. Let's see what you guys think about this single issue:


"Overseas Contingency Operations"

FY2010-2019 Total Outlays for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: CBO's Baseline . . . . . . $1.634 trillion
(does not include debt service)






 

MovingTarget

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1) Get economy growing again
2) Restore fiscal discipline as economy allows...
3) Pay down debt when economy is good

First things first, guys...
 

TheSkinsFan

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Originally posted by: heyheybooboo
Increase in the Federal Debt

Last 219 days of the Bush Administration: $1,238,263,124,784.19

First 219 days of the Obama Administration: $1,091,509,892,221.60

Was your point that they're both out of control spendthrifts?

That must have been your point... and I agree.
 

MotF Bane

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Originally posted by: MovingTarget
1) Get economy growing again
2) Restore fiscal discipline as economy allows...
3) Pay down debt when economy is good

First things first, guys...

Never gonna happen.