Congressional Budget Office on Townhall

• Obama's Kill Jobs Bill Tue Oct 18
  Bob Beauprez
  Bloomberg doubted Zandi and the President's projections, too. They surveyed 34 other economists. Not one was as optimistic as Zandi. In fact the average job creation estimate by the group was a paltry 288,000. Five said the legislation would produce zero new jobs. Since Obama's wants to spend $447 billion to get there, if the average estimate were to come true that works out to $1.6 million per job. ... more
• White House waffling on long-term care plan? Mon Oct 17
  AP News
• Obama administration pulls part of healthcare law Fri Oct 14
  Reuters News
• Top senators open to changes in military health Fri Oct 14
  AP News
• Ahead of the Bell: Budget Deficit Fri Oct 14
  AP News
• Top GOP senator open to changes in military health Fri Oct 14
  AP News
• Panetta begins to prepare Pentagon for budget cuts Tue Oct 11
  Reuters News
• Limits on supplemental Medicare plans eyed Mon Oct 10
  Reuters News
• Pain of job crisis goes well beyond the unemployed Fri Oct 7
  AP News
• Business Highlights Fri Oct 7
  AP News
• CBO estimates $1.3 trillion deficit for 2011 Fri Oct 7
  AP News
• A job is becoming a dim memory for many unemployed Thu Oct 6
  AP News
• The FairTax and 9-9-9 Are Deception From the Right Thu Oct 6
  Donna Wiesner Keene
  Remember stop, look and listen before you cross the street? Follow this cautionary tale before you swallow the balanced budget language of Presidential candidate and former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson and the 9-9-9 tax system of former CEO Herman Cain. Simple slogans can be dangerous. ... more
• Bernanke warns recovery 'close to faltering' Tue Oct 4
  AP News
• Senators court 2012 voters with China currency bill Sun Oct 2
  Reuters News
• Scolding His Supporters is Sign of Obama's Desperation Wed Sep 28
  Donald Lambro
  A rattled tone of desperation has taken hold of President Obama's once self-confident rhetoric as he struggles to rally his party's dispirited political base. ... more
• Farmers group backs plan to overhaul dairy policy Mon Sep 26
  AP News
• Obama's Biggest Lies Mon Sep 26
  Peter Ferrara
  If you work hard, play by the rules, save your money, create jobs, and make a success out of yourself, President Obama and the Democrat party will plunder everything you have worked so hard for, because in their view that is only fair. ... more
• The Anti-Labor President Sat Sep 17
  John C. Goodman
  The most important feature of President Obama’s “jobs speech” to Congress last week is this: For the first time in his presidency Barack Obama actually sounded like he really and truly believes that economic incentives matter in the labor market. ... more
• Uncle Sam's IOUs Can't Save Social Security Wed Sep 7
  Jeff Jacoby
  My mother's mother revered Franklin Roosevelt. She voted for him four times, and firmly defended him decades later, when I tried to convince her that FDR was not the haloed saint she imagined. ... more
• CBO: Cost Per Job Between $196,750 and $562,000 Sat Sep 3
  Jeff Reeves
  Cost Per Job Between $196,750 and $562,000: Like I said, the jobs numbers are slippery. But if you take the $787 billion price tag and divide by CBO estimates of 1.4 million to 4 million “full-time equivalent” jobs created as a result of the stimulus measure, per-job costs range between these two six-figure sums. ... more
• CBO Predicts $1.5 Trillion Deficit for 2011 Wed Aug 24
  Katie Pavlich
• The Clinton Surplus Myth- Part 2 Tue Aug 23
  Craig Steiner
  Citizens that hear about the Clinton "surplus" but also know the national debt never went down may legitimately ask, "How can the national debt increase even when the government supposedly has a surplus?" This article will provide a detailed explanation of how Clinton claimed a surplus even when the government borrowed $18 billion more the same year. ... more
• The Clinton Surplus Myth Mon Aug 22
  Craig Steiner
  Time and time again, anyone reading the mainstream news or reading articles on the Internet will read the claim that President Clinton not only balanced the budget, but had a surplus. This is then used as an argument to further highlight the fiscal irresponsibility of the federal government under the Bush administration. Here are the facts. ... more
• New Obamacare Violations of Personal Liberty Mon Aug 8
  Star Parker
  Who can forget that rare moment of honesty during the campaign to pass Obamacare when Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill in order for you to find out what’s in it”? Now we have it and almost daily there are new revelations about the staggering extent to which our private lives and individual freedoms have been stomped on. ... more
• Rogue government, USA Sun Aug 7
  Paul Jacob
  The budget deal not only set government spending to grow, it set up an oligarchy. Wrong direction. So what's the right direction? ... more

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