Chicago Sunday PM 22 May 2011


Editors, The New York Times


Gentlepeople:


The New York Times editorial “Budget Hopes...” of Thursday 19 May credits Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn with “acknowledging that the budget cannot be put in long-term balance without new money.”


For its first 6 years the Bush administration, assisted by a Republican Congress, ran an average monthly deficit of $20 billion. In its last two years, assisted by a Democrat Congress, the monthly average deficit was increased to $35 billion. For the first 26 months of the Obama administration the average monthly deficit has been $121 billion.


And you claim “the budget cannot be put in long-term balance without new money?”


And you call the Republicans “ideologues” (commonly defined as 'impractical idealists')?


Arnold H Nelson

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773-677-3010 ah_nelson@yahoo.com