It's amazing that interest rates aren't much higher when we see news like this.
Even as government receipts posted a rare increase in February, soaring outlays pushed the country's year-to-date deficit up to a record $651.60 billion.
The government's fiscal 2010 year-to-date deficit is up 10.5% from fiscal year 2009.
The government in February alone ran its largest ever monthly deficit—$221 billion, the U.S. Treasury said in releasing its monthly budget statement Wednesday. The government in February 2009 ran a budget deficit of nearly $194 billion.
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An increase in corporate tax collections coupled with lower refunds to individual taxpayers drove receipts up 23% to $107.52 billion in February 2010 from $87.31 billion in February 2009.
Government outlays also rose in February because of spending on home-buyer and other tax-credit programs enacted as part of a 2009 stimulus package. Outlays in February stood at $328.43 billion, up nearly 17% from $281.17 billion in the same month a year earlier.
In middle of all the "good" news, you shouldn't miss the point that government spending was more than three times the amount of government revenue.
I'm getting jealous
They just passed a massive $148 billion "Stimulus redux" but a huge portion is extending unemployment, COBRA..
well, while I agree with that for the unemployed, the reality is that only 48% even qualify for unemployment, which leaves every body else high and dry.
I mean if they would have done a direct jobs program that would have helped the high and dry but this just covers only those covered in the first place, meanwhile 52% of workers are what? Now in cardboard boxes (or maybe wooden ones)?