[Deo volente]

According to an executive summary, the Gang of Six plan would stabilize the debt by 2014 and reduce publicly held debt to 70 percent of gross domestic product by 2021.

Are those GDP projections the optimistic ones, or the REALISTIC ones? In other words, are they assuming 3-4% growth in GDP each year, or the more likely 1.5%?

[9YearLurker]

This congress has no say over what the next five congresses do. They’ve just got bolder in pushing the shell game farther out into the future.