True deficit: $3.5 trillion

A report scheduled to be released by the Treasury Department tomorrow is expected to show the true deficit in the Bush administration's 2006 federal budget to be an astounding $3.5 trillion in the red, not $248.2 billion as previously reported.
"The Bush administration is running a federal budget deficit at an unsustainable, system-dooming pace of about $3.5 trillion a year, econometrician John Williams, who publishes the website Shadow Government ... Full Story »

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Mike Carlson
4.8
by Mike Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a solid report of a knowledgable analysis of our true national debt. This is the result of Reagan's Social Security "fix" of the 1980's come home to roost. The numbers cited in the source report are consistent with debt and deficit holes that the current administration has deepened beyond any possible gradual turnaround.

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