Commentary

Obama’s Latest "Never Mind" - $2 Trillion Deficit Recalibration

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, August 27 2009

Is Barack Obama capable of saying anything that Americans can trust? That question accrued even greater prominence this week after the White House recalibrated its ten-year budget deficit projection from $7 trillion to $9 trillion. Just three months ago, when Obama completed the official release of his proposed 2010 budget, he forecast a $7.1 trillion cumulative deficit for the years 2010 through 2019. As awful as that sum was, even it was based upon unreasonably optimistic assumptions, such as a mere 1.2 percent drop in gross domestic product (GDP) for 2009 and future GDP increases…

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