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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Donald Carl Isenman
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by Donald Carl Isenman - Oct. 1, 2008

Important story. Does it matter if if it is off by a few trillion? This alone can put an end to the American Century. To bad it will most likely be ignored...

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