At least it is trending the right way.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6d2016e01...st-8-years

Thank you Republican House and Senate that drafts and passes all the budgets.

(10-16-2015 10:20 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Thank you Republican House and Senate that drafts and passes all the budgets.

(10-16-2015 10:46 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 10:20 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Thank you Republican House and Senate that drafts and passes all the budgets.

@ Obama's last budget proposal that was voted down 99-1 in the Senate.

oh goody! we are only cutting off our arm at the forearm instead of the elbow.

(10-16-2015 10:20 AM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  Thank you Republican House and Senate that drafts and passes all the budgets.

How many budgets has the new GOP controlled Senate passed?

It's ridiculous how each party tries to hoard credit and shed blame. They both suck and they both occasionally get something right.

(10-16-2015 10:19 AM)fsquid Wrote:  At least it is trending the right way.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6d2016e01...st-8-years

....is like being the world's tallest midget...You are still short.

A deficit is a deficit.

Damn, America's standards are low.

So we explode the budget in a down economic year, and we're supposed to be excited that we didn't continue to do so?

Who's acting excited? A fact was simply stated along with a correct assessment that at least it's moving in the right direction...but no...we can't discuss that...because we have to ***** about everything that occurs during the Obama administration. ODS.

The government would need to cut spending by about 5% just to have a surplus big enough to offset this deficit - that's $878 billion.

So we still aren't back to the last normal year of Bush excluding the bailout year.

(10-17-2015 05:53 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Who's acting excited? A fact was simply stated along with a correct assessment that at least it's moving in the right direction...but no...we can't discuss that...because we have to ***** about everything that occurs during the Obama administration. ODS.

Did you miss the link where it is called BigStory.AP.Org?? Apparently the AP things this is a big story

Let's not act as if Obama (his people/The DNC) hasn't been touting this for some while now. If Obama were running for re-election, or if Biden joins in... you can bet that they would be expecting us to be 'excited' about it. I feel confident that if I needed to, I could easily find a thread where someone has.... probably around the last election cycle.