Graph shows anywhere from 1 to 4 trillion dollar deficit by 2015

[scottxyz]

A trillion here, a trillion there...



"The national debt is much bigger, and growing much faster, than Michael Moore's ass, and it is a much bigger threat to the health of the nation. I wish it got as much attention."

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[President Jesus]

1. strange chart, since the US is already $8 trillion in debt

I wish we were only to be $4 trillion in debt by 2015.

[sjr5740]

4. the chart isn't debt it is a one year deficit

the debt will balloon exponentially if th tax cuts dont expire.

[tx_dem41]

5. Actually, its not even one year deficit...

...its cumulative deficit starting with FY '05. In other words, when the lines start sloping positively, that year's budget is in a surplus.

[sjr5740]

7. your right didnt look closely enough

[tx_dem41]

2. Actually the chart shows cumulative deficit starting with FY '05. n/t

[EVDebs]

3. Republicans used to be the party of fiscal responsibility. Dems are now

how ironic. And if you speak out responsibly against this administration's policies, you are labelled a 'traitor'.

With 'patriots' like these traitors aren't even necessary !

[President Jesus]

9. when was that?

they've certainly said they were the party of fiscal responsibility, but there is zero proof that they ever were, at least in the last hundred years. If you look at the raw facts of the last 4 republican administrations, they were the exact opposite of fiscally responsible.

[EVDebs]

10. When some helped form the Concord Coalition.... and even then...

not all wanted to restrain the Military Industrial complex, so I will conceed your point !

[Turbineguy]

6. So....ahhh....

what's the monthy payment on a 12 trillion dollar mortgage (and not one of these phony no-principle convertable things either.

[Telly Savalas]

8. The Democratic Caucus needs to point this out...

when those numbnuts in the GOP start whining about how Social Security will be insolvent a century from now. Our country is facing an immediate and real financial crisis. If our party leaders choose to play this right, then Bush and his minions will just be making huges asses of themselves every time they ignore the budget catastophe in favor of obsessively dryhumping their fake SS "crisis".