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Obama, the Liar.
Topic Started: May 24 2012, 09:02 AM (312 Views)
Mason
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Read this, then explain to me why Cutting Medicare wouldn't lead to a better Medicare, or cutting Unemployment wouldn't lead to a better Unemployment program. Why wouldn't cuts to the Dept. of Education lead to a better Dept. of Education?

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/23/obama-makes-case-for-defense-cuts/



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Real federal deficit dwarfs official tally

The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.

A U.S. household's median income is $49,445, the Census reports.

The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.

The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion. Liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs rose by $3.7 trillion in 2011, according to government actuaries, but the amount was not registered on the government's books
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1


Mission Almost Accomplished, the destruction of our future!
Edited by Baldo, May 24 2012, 10:47 AM.
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