Obama Spending, Tax Plans Likely Out The Window As CBO Predicts Much More Debt

President Barack Obama‘s budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year over the next decade, according to the latest congressional estimates, significantly worse than predicted by the White House just last month.

The Congressional Budget Office figures, obtained by The Associated Press Friday, predict Obama’s budget will produce $9.3 trillion worth of red ink over 2010-2019. That’s $2.3 trillion worse than the White House predicted in its budget.

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

Worst of all, CBO says the deficit under Obama’s policies would never go below 4 percent of the size of the economy, figures that economists agree are unsustainable. By the end of the decade, the deficit would exceed 5 percent of gross domestic product, a dangerously high level.

The latest figures, even worse than expected by top Democrats, throw a major monkey wrench into efforts to enact Obama’s budget, which promises universal health care for all and higher spending for domestic programs like education and research into renewable energy.

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The dismal deficit figures, if they prove to be accurate, inevitably raise the prospect that Obama and his allies controlling Congress would have to consider raising taxes after the recession ends or paring back his agenda.

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“Look Beyond the Smoke Screen”
Michelle Malkin
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/2
0/look-beyond-the-bogus-bonus-smokescreen/

Bush Defiecit not nearly this large: Related:
http://liberaledu.wordpress.com/2009/03/20
/first-signs-that-obama-economy-is-dangerou
sly-close-to-sinking-the-us/