CBO: Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillion

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WASHINGTON – A new assessment of President Barack Obama's budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade.

The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if Obama's February budget submission is enacted into law it would produce deficits totaling $9.5 trillion over 10 years — an average of almost $1 trillion a year.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/...s_obama_budget

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that works out to be about $31,000 per person

[Bill Roy]

Yes, and your point being?

Seems somewhat surprising then that Obama is so far ahead in the polls over all Repug challengers, this must surely mean that the Repugs are not trusted by the American people, or is it just that people now realise that Government should actually govern and not just be niche club of business and the rich?