Record deficits

Remember all those crazy "tea baggers", with their wacky warnings of out of control deficits?

"The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, Congressional analysts said Wednesday. The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with healthcare-overhaul legislation that could cost $900 billion over the next decade. The flood of red ink flows from several factors, including a big drop in tax revenues due to the recession, $245 billion in emergency spending on the Wall Street bailout and the takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Then there is almost $200 billion in costs from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill, as well as increases in programs such as unemployment benefits and food stamps. The previous record deficit was $459 billion and was set just last year."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1271891.html


Unless Obama has a stunningly successful run of economic good luck, he will go down in history as our most fiscally irresponsible president.