Check out the graph tracking the US’ annual budget below.  It shows where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re projected to be through the next decade.  The CBO is the Congressional Budget Office and functions as an independent entity whose purpose is to provide some semblance of accountability in the budgetary process.  The last budget surplus was in 2001.  After that, and all through the Bush years, the deficits began mounting.  Clearly, neither party can boast of their having been fiscally responsible.   But watch how the marble has rolled off the table in the past 12 months and how sharply–and alarmingly–the financial scenario worsens. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you had a team of experts handling your money and this was their track record, you would fire them.  Well, America, it is your money.  No wonder a Rasmussen Poll released last week states that 63% of Americans favor the standing guard in Congress being voted out come November.  This madness must be stopped. 

~Dan Blanchard