Wednesday, March 25

The Obama deficit

(meme) From a Heritage Foundation blog, this budget sure is ugly:

President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s.

What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:

Given our current recession, a high deficit through 2012 may be the wisest course of action. But the red uptick afterward is unacceptable and unsustainable.

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