We need to vote this yahoo news story up

[auburngrad82]

Bush has been telling us that the deficit is going down and will be cut in half by 2008, right? Wrong...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/congressspendingdrawsfire

Congress' spending draws fire

A series of actions by the Republican-controlled Congress threatens to send the federal deficit soaring, reversing a downward trend caused by new tax revenues from a rebounding economy.

Legislation passed by Congress this year will add $35 billion to next year's budget deficit and $115 billion through 2010, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan watchdog group.


Fueling the spending is the war in Iraq and emergency aid for victims of last December's tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Last week, lawmakers added billions more in energy, highway and veterans health care funding.

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