re: The Deficit Has Never Been This High When the Economy Was This Strong

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No, the poster is just wrong. Don't know where he got his numbers, but we know what our annual budget deficits are.

There is some truing up as data comes in but every credible source will settle in within a few billion. There aren't 600 billion discrepancies in deficit reporting.

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I think my source moved some numbers:

FY 2010 - $1.652 trillion.
FY 2009 - $253 billion. Congress passed the Economic Stimulus Act, which spent $253 billion in FY 2009. This rare occurrence should be added to President Obama's contribution to the debt.
FY 2009 - $1.632 trillion. This was Bush's deficit without the impact of the Economic Stimulus Act.