Congressional Budget Office — Jeffrey A. Setaro

Weekend Briefing – Saturday, October 10, 2009

I’m going to be tied up with family all weekend but here’s a collection of must read links: CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 – Associated Press Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus – Associated Press A Nobel for Obama – New York Sun Barack Obama’s peace prize starts a [...]

Ed Morrissey has obtained a copy the summer 2009 Congressional Budget Office report on the health of the Social Security “Trust Fund”… The news isn’t good, actually it’s pretty frightening: Four years ago, George W. Bush attempted to reform the entitlement program Social Security, warning that the system was accelerating into collapse and would soon [...]