The federal government spent more than it pocketed a 10th straight month during July, nearing a record last set in 1992 for a string of deficits.Bush was a reckless spender, but now they're in hock by another $78 billion for July as opposed to last year.
Burdened by Wall Street bailout costs and shriveled corporate profits, the government was $180.68 billion in the red during July, the Treasury Department said Wednesday in its monthly budget statement. July 2008's federal budget deficit was $102.77 billion.
Startling. Of course people casually like to overlook the facts the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.
But wait, it gets worse.
The deficit record for any month is $193.86 billion, in February this year.Is it any wonder Dear Leader is now disapproved by a majority?
For the first 10 months of fiscal 2009, the deficit widened to $1.267 trillion, more than triple the $388.62 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal 2008.
Fiscal years start Oct. 1. The White House has predicted the deficit will total $1.841 trillion this fiscal year. The biggest deficit for any fiscal year on record is $454.8 billion, rung up in fiscal 2008.
Wall Street was on target predicting the July 2009 deficit. A survey of economists by Dow Jones Newswires forecast $180 billion.
The string of 10 monthly deficits isn't a record. There have been 11 in a row three times, the last time being May 1991 through March 1992.
July 2009 federal government spending totaled $332.18 billion, compared with $263.26 billion in July 2008.
Year-to-date federal-government spending totaled $3.01 trillion, compared with $2.48 trillion in the first 10 months of fiscal 2008.
By any objective analysis this is a fiscal calamity and if Republicans were overseeing such a boondoggle I wouldn't be hesitant to criticize them for it.
Will the media be so eager to note this road to ruin?
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