Crackup Central: The federal government’s own numbers crunchers project utter budgetary collapse.
By RALPH R. REILAND
Spectator.org
10 9 12
The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it’s officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government’s own number crunchers.
In fiscal year 2011 — October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011– the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal government spent $3.6 trillion, or 24 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, 24 percent of the monetary value of all the goods and services produced in the United States in that year, the highest federal-spending-to-GDP ratio since World War II.
Federal outlays averaged 19.6 percent and 19.8 percent of GDP, respectively, during the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.
The CBO also reports that total federal tax revenues in fiscal year 2011 were $2.2 trillion, against $3.6 trillion in spending, producing a shortfall of nearly $1.4 trillion in red ink, a $1.4 trillion annual deficit that’s simply added to the federal debt and paid for by more borrowing and sticking future taxpayers with the tab.
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