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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScore For Obama! The 2012 Deficit Down By $207 Billion And Heading Lower
The September 2012 numbers show an increase in receipts of about $23 billion, or 9% higher than the same period a year ago and a decrease of $115 billion in spending.
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porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)...we know Fox will. I do like the fact that in a little more than two days, two of the 'Pubes biggest talking points have dissolved: unemployment is now under 8% and the deficit is lower and going down.
Cha
(297,655 posts)playing "rescue mittLies".
It's Miracle News!
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Good for him for sticking with it in spite of everyone.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)....claim the White House "cooked" the numbers on this too. They'll have to have Jack Welch on again. Pfft.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)jobs up deficit down.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Counter romney's lies, would'ya?
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)for a change at the top!
Forward!
mick063
(2,424 posts)We may lose a heck of a lot of public sector jobs. We may go back into recession. We may not be able to provide traditional government services. We may lose our saftey net. But that deficit will be under control.
Get ready for the Social Security "sunset" law. It's coming.
All in the name of protecting assets in hedge funds and foreign accounts.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Not.
girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)in the midst of a recession and unemployment crisis.
People need to ask themselves why they are celebrating numbers on a spreadsheet while their fellow Americans are hurting.
awake
(3,226 posts)right jab then left hook. reality hits back at Mitt, not long before he goes down.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)and increasing during Republican ones.
How very bizarre.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)They tell their voters they are Fiscal Conservatives but since 1980 have spent large and cut taxes to drive up the deficits and then when Dem president get in start screaming about the national debt and how we have to cut entitlement spending.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)As more people go back to work, the spending on unemployment goes down and the revenues - from taxes on the new employees goes up. Also, as more people go back to work, they start spending more, leading to more employment.
(There is also likely some impact because the states where you can collect extended unemployment are far fewer. This helps the numbers, but the long term unemployed are suffering more because of it.)
I wonder if this could be used to reduce the amount of spending cuts required.
This trend will also make it seem as though the President in office made the economy better.
jillan
(39,451 posts)They'll never report on this
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Fudge numbers cause O had such a horrible debate he must distort the numbers just like the unemployment and jobs numbers!
Welch, West, and all of Fake News will set the record straight! The Mormons, Beck, Limpballs, Hucklebee(sp), Boone and Robertson will pay it away. Mittens and Mini Mitt, the serial liars will give their own account, and Mary Maltin will tell everyone that they are all lying.
Meanwhile, Pres O and VP Biden and the Democratic Party want America to recovery and succeed. The GOP party want America fail.
still_one
(92,396 posts)administration fixed these numbers also
conspiracy
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)(comes the wailing refrain from the right).
NOLALady
(4,003 posts)Mister Ed
(5,943 posts)I thought I heard him say that in the debate.