Posts Tagged ‘deficit’

Pulling the wool over our eyes

February 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Representative Lynn Woolsey is in the same bed as Nancy Pelosi ( now is that a scary vision or what? ): Sift through their self-righteous attacks on the Senate floor and the bluster of their talking heads on FOX News, and there’s an important aspect of the debate over the recovery package that the Republicans [...]

$128 billion surplus morphed to giant deficit

July 28th, 2008 | No Comments

That’s the teaser on CNN.  Here’s some of the meat: A Democratic point man on the budget, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, blasted the administration for its “reckless fiscal policies,” blaming the president’s tax cuts for driving the government into deficit and saying Bush “will be remembered as the most fiscally irresponsible president in [...]

Budget deficit drops, again

August 12th, 2007 | No Comments

Seems the federal budget deficit dropped.  Again.  Seems all of a sudden hardly anyone really seems to care.  Wasn’t that an issue last fall?  Didn’t people totally ignore the numbers of a shrinking deficit and decide to buy the rhetoric that the budget was out of control?  Why did they do that?  Now, what’s getting [...]