#deficit

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. ↗

— John Sununu

#afghanistan #art #art form #back #bad

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#dispute #i #increased #look

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. ↗

— David Hartman

#deficits #economic #facing #free #free world

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#budget #build #cannot #deficits #growing

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. ↗

— John Spratt

#amount #bottom #bottom line #cut #cuts

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#faces #long-term #security #social #social security

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american people #bailouts #congress #debt #deficits

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#accounts #balance #current #deficit #items

Of course we have to address the deficit if we win. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#course #deficit #win

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#balance #best #carry #connections #deficit