Washington Post Tells Readers That Interest Payments on the Debt Will be Almost as High in 2025 as They Were Under President Reagan and Bush!

Actually the Post's budget piece didn't tell readers that. Instead it said:


"All told, Obama’s policies would add about $5.7 trillion to the debt over the next decade (compared with nearly $8 trillion under current law). Meanwhile, interest payments on the debt would climb to nearly $800 billion a year by 2025 — more than Obama proposes to spend on any program in that year other than Social Security and Medicare."


Pretty damn scary, huh? Just think of that -- adding $5.7 trillion to the debt,...

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Published on February 03, 2015 05:03
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