Drowning In Debt…..What It Means For You!
Posted By thestatedtruth.com on February 17, 2010
Drowning in Debt: What the Nation’s Budget Woes Mean for You
Economists Predict Cutbacks, Tax Increases That ‘Aren’t Even Imaginable’
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By DEVIN DWYER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2010
American political and economic leaders have sounded the alarm for years about the red ink rising in reports on the federal government’s fiscal health.
But now the problem of mounting national debt is worse than it ever has been before with — potentially dire consequences for taxpayers, according to a report by the nonpartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform.
“It keeps me awake at night, looking at all that red ink,” said President Obama in Nashua, N.H., on Feb. 2. “Most of it is structural and we inherited it. The only way that we are going to fix it is if both parties come together and start making some tough decisions about our long-term priorities.”
Obama will sign an executive order tomorrow that establishes a bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to make recommendations on how to reduce the country’s debt.
Over the past year alone, the amount the U.S. government owes its lenders has grown to more than half the country’s entire economic output, or gross domestic product.
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