When we have a budget this high why does it have to increase at all? Don't care about budget increases, care about the debt generated.
No.
The budget is a bit more complicated than the end debt result. You want to talk up Reagan and trash Obama for spending? Fine, but don't shirk away when that actual data starts to chip away at your perceptions. I care about spending and revenue trends, I want the deficit to go down and hopefully one day start paying down our debts, and looking at these factors and where they have been and are going matter. Math matters.
Do you realize how accurate CBO is? CBO is charged by the Congress to take the assumptions given and develop a cost estimate. If the assumptions are wrong, the cost estimates are wrong. That happens with CBO a lot, assumptions are mostly always wrong, look at the Obamacare costs today vs when initially passed?
The CBO is as accurate as it can be, it's not perfect and anyone would admit that. Life happens, laws get adjusted, hurricanes occur, economies shift, estimates change, not getting around that for sure. Problem is for the most part I'm using past and current budgets, spending, and jobs numbers to draw my conclusions, times already bygone and not chronologically able to be subjected to estimation. The only projections I've used were the $3.8 trillion spending estimate you gave based off of a budget request for FY 2013-2014, and the $3.53T spending estimated for the fiscal year ending in just three months.
As for the ACA aka Obamacare, the CBO still is telling Paul Ryan that repealing the law would INCREASE the budget deficit.
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/hr45.pdf
The American people need to get the facts, not one side of the facts. People around today that were around during the Reagan years know what the economy was like when Reagan took office and know what happened during his term. That same feeling isn't happening today because Obama lacks basic leadership skills and expertise.
People were on the sugar high, and I don't blame them at all. On the surface, we had a better economy and employment from between when Reagan took and left office, but at the cost of massive budget deficits for the time and mroe or less that start of the era of fiscal irresponsibility. It would be nice to see another 17 million jobs into the economy by the time Obama leaves office and I hope we get there. Thanks to Congressional stagnation and a shrinking pubic jobs sector, we're kind of trying to do this with one hand tied and I'm less than optimistic that we'll get there by January 2017.
I gave you the average based upon employment numbers, that is terrible when you spend as much as Obama has spent to generate those numbers. Why do you buy what the left tells you when experience tells you that the projections are never right. Name for me an economic projection that Obama has made that has been accurate?
You keep conflating "the left" with hard economic statistics, why?
As for projections, as I said before, life happens and estimates change because of that. No projections from anyone are perfect or 100% accurate, certainly not Obama's any other president's. For the most part though, I'm not talking into the "maybes" but what has happened and what is happening now.
The numbers regarding Bush aren't what you reported and I have posted those numbers here. Most of the job losses that hurt his numbers came with a Democrat controlled Congress more interested in regaining the WH than doing their job.
That is laughably partisan and unprovable. Even the Wall Street Journal concedes that Bush's job numbers were lousy at best, and negative at worst.
I am a pro growth private sector individual and that is the exact opposite of Obama and liberalism today.
You say that, and yet the only job growth that has occurred under Obama and his big government liberal cabal has been pretty much exclusively in the private sector. Every month for the last 30 straight, the private jobs market has grown whereas the public market has shrunk.
Which I'm okay with, the private sector should lead the way, but you know, "something something liberal socialism Obama something big govt. something cult" or whatever rhetoric the internet right-wingers are babbling about these days.