Saturday, March 27, 2010

More ObamaLegacy: Super-Debt!!

It's no wonder that the 10-year USTreasuries are paying more in interest. Looking at the trend-line following the Fed monetization of October 09, we see increase in the interest rate.

And that could get a LOT worse.

President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation's economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday.

In its 2011 budget, which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Feb. 1, the administration projected a 10-year deficit total of $8.53 trillion. After looking it over, CBO said in its final analysis, released Thursday, that the president's budget would generate a combined $9.75 trillion in deficits over the next decade.

A trillion here, a trillion there, what's the big deal? OMB released a heavily-massaged number that even CBO couldn't swallow.

To Obama, spending money's no big deal, no matter the consequences. For the rest of us, well, your mileage may vary.

The federal public debt, which was $6.3 trillion ($56,000 per household) when Mr. Obama entered office amid an economic crisis, totals $8.2 trillion ($72,000 per household) today, and it's headed toward $20.3 trillion (more than $170,000 per household) in 2020, according to CBO's deficit estimates.

This sort of crap is what represses the economy, folks.

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