I believe we are. This is kind of interesting. The article on the budget deficit is from August. From what I have been reading in WaPo, etc., they are claiming…

…Sargent] responding to the critics of a blog post in which he blamed Obama for the sequester because in “any enterprise, the chief executive is ultimately accountable for success and…

…dark, part of the Obama administration’s cost-cutting measures. The real irony I discover, though, is to find right-wingers at The Heritage Foundation screaming about the Obama administration’s hypocrisy and opacity…

…Boskin Sense and Nonsense About Federal Deficits and Debt (h/t MG) But I suggest this from that paper validates my overall point (bolding mine). Table 1 Alternative Budget Surplus/Deficit Concepts…

…“deficit reduction is a big emergency, justifying making cuts in Social Security.” Oh, horrors. After all, deficit reduction is a big emergency. And a historically high debt level–irrespective of the…

…same GOP politicians who whine and whimper about how huge the deficit is, and accuse President Obama of driving our country to ruin with the deficit are willing to lower…

…on inflation data that culminated in the Boskin Commission in 1995. I always took this to be a political attack rather than a scientific one. My attitude has always been…

…an important one when we are faced with a so-called Deficits Commission whose leaders make it clear that Social Security is front and center, as workers and future retirees we…

…page Summary, both available at the link. The Report takes on some new urgency this year because of the appointment of the President’s Deficit Commission, which really should be called…

…the Summer of 1983, smarting under what they called the “fiasco of the last 18 months”, i.e. the Greenspan Commission and subsequent 1983 Reform, the Cato Institute convened a conference…