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balanced budget stories: 6 news summaries
Analysis

How We Wound Up With
a $1.2T Deficit


Jun 10, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s agenda plays a very small role in the massive deficits facing the country, but it won't do anything to correct them, wither the New York Times reports. After reviewing a decade’s worth of Congressional Budget Office reports, the paper explains how the government turned a... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • national debt • budget deficit • balanced budget • George W. Bush • Obama administration • budget crisis

Ballot Measures a Final Test for Schwarzenegger

Outgoing gov must convince Calif. voters to endorse budget fixes

May 6, 09 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deep into Arnold Schwarzenegger's second term, the novelty of holding political office has given way to the hard realities of governing, the New York Times reports. In the eyes of his constituents, too, the Governator’s celebrity sheen has faded, enough that Schwarzenegger is worried about the passage of several... More »

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California • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sacramento • budget • governor • budget gap • balanced budget • ballot initiative

OPINION

 Obama Makes 
 GOP Miss Clinton 


Mar 5, 09 2:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Back in the '90s you wouldn’t hear many Republicans waxing poetic about Bill Clinton, but these days, that’s exactly what Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune is doing. “Clinton, for all his appetites and excesses, was a cautious, centrist sort of Democrat” who “proclaimed—or conceded—... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • conservative • budget deficit • balanced budget • fiscal policy • Republicans

OPINION

Keep State's Woes From Dragging Down Economy

Now is no time to require balanced budgets

Dec 29, 08 10:13 AM CST
(Newser) - When the economy goes south, the government has no business aiming for a balanced budget. But all 50 governors are faced with slashing spending to do so, and “at the expense both of their most vulnerable constituents and of the nation’s economic future,” Paul Krugman writes in... More »

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US states • recession • governor • budget deficit • balanced budget • financial crisis

McCain Vows
to Balance
the Budget

Social Security reform one scenario; Dems
call plan unrealistic

Jul 7, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain will pledge to balance the budget by the end of his first term, Politico reports, promising spending and entitlement programs, including Social Security, in a policy paper released today. McCain is renewing a promise he’d backed off from in April—a vow likely to excite his fellow... More »

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John McCain • entitlement programs • Medicare • budget • spending • Social Security • McCain 2008 • balanced budget • economy

McCain Outlines More Specific
Fiscal Stance

Candidate looks to cut taxes, project fiscal responsibility

Mar 3, 08 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - How would John McCain run the economy, really? In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the candidate tried to answer that question, positioning himself as a fiscally responsible defender of the Bush tax cuts. But the candidate’s tax proposals don’t quite add up, the Journal... More »

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John McCain • US economy • domestic policy • tax cuts • Social Security • budget deficit • McCain 2008 • economic plans • tax policy • balanced budget

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