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To: Brown Deer
The graph is heading downward...

You haven't looked at many budgets, have you? The budget, Republican or Democrat, almost always projects improvement in the debt. I blogged about this looking at the outlays projected in the Bush budgets at this link. Note the vertical line that has "Actual" on the left and "Estimate" on the right in the graph. The graph to the left is useful for seeing the actual history of the debt up to the present. The graph to the right is useful for looking at the President's claimed priorities.

If you look at the graphs at this link, you'll see that Trump contends that this turnaround in the debt will be caused by drops (as a % of GDP) in Defense, Income Security, and Health (chiefly Medicaid). He's already reversed himself on Defense, I think. To be fair, the graphs at this link showed that Obama contended that the turnaround would be caused by a continued recovery in revenue. Of course, no President totally gets his way and/or the forecast turns out to be overly rosy. Hence, you can only look at the projections as a statement of priorities.

and your next link points to liberal #fakenews

Kind of like the following show a page from the conservative #faketaxbill ?


99 posted on 12/02/2017 3:48:42 PM PST by remember
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To: remember

and you continue to out yourself as a left-wing liberal...


100 posted on 12/02/2017 4:10:07 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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