How the Deficit Got This Big (War & tax cuts-->that's all it's ever been about!)

[hue]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24sun4.html?_r=1&src=tp

With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions.
Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non-
defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.

[Angry Dragon]

1. How come congress can not see this??

[unblock]

2. oh, they know the facts when they see them....

and they avoid them assiduously.

[area51]

5. +1 n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Ike warned us ,and imposed 90% tax

to wealthiest Americans ,he could see why Congresss wouldn't , $$$$$$$$$$$

[think]

4. Kick for the truth. Bush's administration failed and now the GOP blames the poor