Tag: deficits
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Friday Policy Haiku – Deficits and Debt
Deficits and debt Hard choices delayed, denied Our children will pay
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The New S-word
There is a particular word that the Obama Administration apparently feels is too provocative for public discourse – that word is “stimulus.” The President mentioned the word exactly once in his State of the Union address, ditto for the White House Budget, which is 192 pages. Doing one better, OMB Director Peter Orszag and Treasury…
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Happy Budget Day
Today much of Washington stood still as many plodded through the hundreds of pages and myriad graphs, charts and tables in the White House Budget request for fiscal year 2011. It is an annual rite in Washington that the first Monday in February be spent this way. Though thanks to modern technology the materials are…