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Showing posts with label infographics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infographics. Show all posts
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Overview: Federal Debt and the Fiscal Outlook
GAO's federal simulations show that absent policy changes, the federal government faces a rapid and unsustainable growth in debt. Simulations of the state and local government sector show that not only the federal government faces fiscal challenges that will have a profound effect on government over the coming decades. A growing imbalance between revenue and spending is driven on the spending side by rising health care costs and the aging population, which in turn will lead to a rapid increase in spending on retirement and health programs.
In light of these challenges, GAO works to provide Congress and the public with updated analysis on the fiscal outlook for the federal government and for the state and local government sector and with answers to key questions about federal debt.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Some favorite 'source material' to combat common misinformation
Some favorite 'source material' to combat common misinformation
Bush tax cuts & spending is largely responsible for our debt today:http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo
And it was 10 years ago that the big borrowing started to pay for the Bush tax cuts. Folks were warned about the effect on the economy: warnings that have come true today: http://thinkprogress.org/speci
Cost comparisions of Bush & Obama policies (who cost the most): http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa
For those that like to see the #s laid out:http://www.addictinginfo.org/2
On this blog is a link to the Congressional Budget Office's report on the nation's debt: http://crooksandliars.com/john
What is not clear is why so many Congressmen don't include this information in their discussions, from their own budget office outlook. Excellent article on what's really happening on regulatory agency funding. Under Bush, budgets were starved but responsibilities grew and thus criticism grew. Then Obama tried to fix it by funding them and the Republican House claimed "spending spree" (with no recognition that military spending in 2 unwarranted wars had anything to do with the budget):http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07
The reality of the debt by the more conservative "The Economist": http://www.economist.com/node/
A comparison; job loss under Bush vs Obama. BTW, Bush tax cuts do NOT create jobs:http://flowingdata.com/2010/02
Politifact-- majorities "favor higher taxes for the rich and no cuts to Medicare": http://www.politifact.com/trut
How about closing corporate tax loop holes? Maybe the corporate taxes are too high, but the "effective" taxes or tax rates are not. These 10 profitable companies paid nothing, while seniors on social security have had no cost-of-living increase for three years: http://www.keepourpromise.org/
If you don't like taxes, don't do these things: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2
No new taxes? Some history on Bush's turn around, and the Grover pledge:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Let's not forget that Dick Cheney said that debt didn't matter during the years of the war spending spree:http://www.ontheissues.org/200
Conservatives like Bachmann are signing a pledge stating that black children are worse off under Obama than under slavery-- if this isn't scary, I can't help you:http://www.mediaite.com/online
FDR, 1944, Second Bill of Rights Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
By: Lv Ansorge
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