The budget deficit and the president

The current failed administration of one George W. Bush released information making clear the next person to occupy The White House will inherit a record budget deficit of $482 billion.

Think about that for a moment. Those estimated figures do not take into account if the current economic woes across America go even further south. What a way to welcome the next administration.

Further, the new figures actually underestimate the deficit, since it leaves out about $80 billion in war costs. In a break from tradition and in violation of new mandates from Congress, the White House did not include its full estimate of war costs.

This makes another case for the party I will be throwing on January 20, 2009 as on that day, at noon EST, the current administration becomes a woeful piece of American history.

Mark Stastny

Rolling Meadows