Budgets, Deficits and Debt

• S&P Lowers Outlook for U.S., Sending Stocks Down by Matthew Saltmarsh, New York Times, April 19, 2008. Lower outlook due to "recent fiscal deterioration ... [and] longer-term fiscal pressures."

• Taxpayer Receipt as proposed by Democracy Journal in their article Seeing Where the Money Went by Ethan Porter and David Kendall.

• Historical Tables from 1789 to 2016 estimats, on the budget, deficits and debt from the Office of Management and Budget.

• The 2012 Budget A graphical presentation from the OMB.

• The 2011 Budget , in a similar graphic, from the NY Times, Feb. 1, 2010. More detailed if not as up to date as the 2012 budget above.

• Obama's 2012 Budget Proposal: How $3.7 Trillion is Spent from the NY Times , Feb. 14, 2011.

• Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget -- an interactive graphic from the N.Y. Times, allowing you to implement your favorite fixes. You will be likely to learn that your favorite fixes don't do much to cut the budget, and other fixes are not likely to be very popular.

• Little Support for Cutting Most Programs by the Pew Polling, Feb. 22, 2013.

• Four Ways to Slice Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal from the NY Times , Feb. 2, 2013.