Testifying before the House Budget Committee today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told Chairman Paul Ryan the following: “We’re not coming before you to say we have a definitive solution to that long-term problem. What we do know is we don’t like yours.”
Actually, President Obama sort of did have a definitive solution. He created a debt commission, which devised a long-term debt reduction plan. Which the president rejected. And instead, we get this new budget proposal, which makes no effort to deal with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security — the long-term drivers of U.S. federal debt. The debt curve never gets bent, as [this] White House (!) chart shows.
Yes, this chart came right out of the Obama administration's budget.
It says: follow us! We're headed for collapse!
At one point during the hearing, Ryan brought out this chart illustrating the impact of the Ryan debt plan, the one Geithner said “we don’t like”:And here was the exchange between Geithner and Ryan, after Ryan pointed the terrifying baseline (in red):
GEITHNER: You could have taken [the chart] out [to the year] 3000 or to 4000. [Laughs]
RYAN: Yeah, right. We cut it off at the end of the century because the economy, according to the CBO, shuts down in 2027 on this path.
And that’s no joke, Mr. Geithner.
Actually, the topmost chart is a joke. A sick, tragic joke, the butt of which is us.
Our country cannot survive another four years of Barack Obama.
Our country cannot survive another four years of Barack “Downgrayedd” Obama.
ReplyDeleteHe Downgrayedd the nation’s credit rating, the economy, our military and even the very concept of Hopenchange.
Your website looks like a fucking child designed it. Do you really, HONESTLY think it doesn't look like a pile of horse shit?
ReplyDeleteI do think this graph, the red of it, is too hopeful. I think it's steeper, for one, and the curve will suffer an "explosion" well before those years you've projected to.
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