Via Daily Kos Bruce Webb writes: When the Ryan Roadmap to Prosperity/2013 Republican House Budget was released some otherwise sharp observers like Ezra Klein claimed it just gave Social Security…

…Security “off budget.” So Social Security has no budgetary implications whatsoever. Medicare has some “budgetary implications” because it was made partially “on budget” in what I think was a misguided…

…controlled firms went bankrupt. Those were budgets under Romney’s control (sole shareholder CEO and all that) which were as un balanced as budgets can be. I know I am mixing…

…to the deficit could not be agreed upon in the budgeting process, some members of the Senate now what a redo. Senator Graham goes to great lengths to stir the…

…lie) is put in the mouths of un named “Republicans.” “The Republicans also say that the budget rules effectively double-count nearly $400 billion in Medicare savings as both reducing the…

The point of the first chart, I believe, is that as our navel power decreases Chinese navel power increases. But that aspect needs to be described carefully as the chart…

Budget Peace in our Times by Robert Waldmann How can it be that the US military is strained to the breaking point occupying (sorry assisting) two medium sized countries when…

…needed an immediate infusion of $275 million beyond the president’s budget request to ensure that imported food, drugs and medical devices were safe. The president’s original budget request, made in…

…soap so far in making sense of the budget. So what were the economic experts saying when OMB were making their assumptions for the FY 2009 budget request? In testimony…

…sources; I happened to pull these numbers directly from the CBO’s annual budget update, specifically the section entitled “Historical Budget Data“. 2005 data is from the CBO’s August Budget Update….