Is the United States flat-out broke? - Stool Pigeons Wire Message Board

Stool Pigeons Wire Message Board: Is the United States flat-out broke? - Stool Pigeons Wire Message Board

Help

Page 1 of 1

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Is the United States flat-out broke? Feds deny report citing obligations '10 times larger' than sta Rate Topic:

#1

Group: Guests

Post icon Posted 06 June 2003 - 07:15 PM

Is the United States flat-out broke?

[snip]

The newspaper columnist said Kotlikoff received a phone call as they were leaving the restaurant informing him that "six months of work by two economists was going to be deleted from the president's budget," which was to be published in February.

"The material to be deleted from the budget document was an updating of generational accounting. Mr. O'Neill had requested an estimate of the true, long-term obligations of the U.S. government," Burns wrote.

[snip]

:huh: