Federal budget PROPOSED deficits

[jasperilla]

Hi DU....

I get some really annoying emails from my family, I try to reply thoughtfully and responsibly....usually spend a lot of time searching to debunk propaganda as appropriate.

Here is one, I can use help with.... pasted below. I am looking to try to find info on the deficit PROPOSED in each President's Budget Submission to congress.... or any other info that might help refute this recent missive I received:






The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough,...... a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)

CHART HERE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

There is no way this will be widely publicized,
Unless each of us sends it on!
This is your chance to make a difference.

[maxsolomon]

1. see? Bush is blameless in everything he did!

you're all unhinged by your irrational liberal emotionalism. :sarcasm:

[suston96]

2. Budgets for the Executive Branch ......

....DO come from the White House. Tell your friends or anyone else to try Google.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/gils_gil-budg

The President proposes the Budget and Congress decides if he will get what he proposes.

Here is another:

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbudgetprocess/a/budget_process.htm

Many more at Google.

[jasperilla]

3. but is there somplace comparing proposed to actual? n/t

[suston96]

4. Proposed to actual? Google precisely that: Proposed to actual federal budgets.

You will get PDF tables of exactly what you are looking for. Pick one you can follow.

I am an accountant and I have trouble following some of the tables.

On edit, try this one and open with your Excel spreadsheet or whatever you have.

ttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/hist.html