George Bush Was Vilified For His Deficits- Well You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

From KDKA out of Pittsburgh

Mar 20, 2009 5:07 pm US/Eastern

$1 Trillion Deficits Seen For Next 10 Years

Despite new estimates that say President Barack Obama's budget would generate unsustainable large deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year, the White House insisted Friday that the flood of red ink won't swamp its costly agenda.

The Congressional Budget Office figures released Friday predict Obama's budget will produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That's $2.3 trillion worse than the administration predicted in its budget just last month.

Worst of all, CBO says the deficit under Obama's policies would never go below 4 percent of the size of the economy, figures that economists agree are unsustainable. By the end of the decade, the deficit would exceed 5 percent of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level.

The latest figures throw a major monkey wrench into efforts to enact Obama's budget, which promises universal health care for all and higher spending for domestic programs like education and research into renewable energy.

The dismal deficit figures, if they prove to be accurate, inevitably raise the prospect that Obama and his allies controlling Congress would have to consider raising taxes after the recession ends or else pare back his agenda.

How is Barack Obama going to explain this one? Did he inherit ten years worth of deficits or is he creating them? We all know the latter. He is going to ruin America if Congress doesn't stop him in his tracks.