Can't We Kill the Deficit Hawk Industry?

Yes, I know Peter Peterson is a major source of employment in Washington and that the Washington Post editors and many pundits would have to look for substantive issues to talk about if they couldn't whine about the debt, but really it is time for these folks to grow up. The immediate provocation here is Steven Rattner's NYT column giving "2016 in Charts."

Most of the charts are actually quite interesting and useful, but then he ends the piece with a tirade about the prospects for the nationa...