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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Deficits/Surpluses From 1940 Until 2013

Deficits/Surpluses From 1940 Until 2013 (*fiscal years)

1* - Presidential control
2* - Senate control
3* - House control

D = Democrat R = Republican

Year

Nominal Dollars

Inflation Adjusted

1940

$2.9 Billion Deficit

$48.33 Billion Deficit

1941

$4.9 Billion Deficit

$77.78 Billion Deficit

1942

$20.5 Billion Deficit

$292.86 Billion Deficit

1943

$54.6 Billion Deficit

$737.84 Billion Deficit

1944

$47.6 Billion Deficit

$634.67 Billion Deficit

1945

$47.6 Billion Deficit

$618.18 Billion Deficit

1946

$15.9 Billion Deficit

$191.57 Billion Deficit

1947

$4 Billion Surplus

$42.11 Billion Surplus

1948

$11.8 Billion Surplus

$114.56 Billion Surplus

1949

$0.6 Billion Surplus

$5.88 Billion Surplus

1950

$3.1 Billion Deficit

$30.1 Billion Deficit

1951

$6.1 Billion Surplus

$54.95 Billion Surplus

1952

$1.5 Billion Deficit

$13.27 Billion Deficit

1953

$6.5 Billion Deficit

$57.02 Billion Deficit

1954

$1.2 Billion Deficit

$10.43 Billion Deficit

1955

$3 Billion Deficit

$26.09 Billion Deficit

1956

$3.9 Billion Surplus

$33.62 Billion Surplus

1957

$3.4 Billion Surplus

$28.33 Billion Surplus

1958

$2.8 Billion Deficit

$22.58 Billion Deficit

1959

$12.8 Billion Deficit

$103.23 Billion Deficit

1960

$0.3 Billion Surplus

$2.36 Billion Surplus

1961

$3.3 Billion Deficit

$25.78 Billion Deficit

1962

$7.1 Billion Deficit

$55.04 Billion Deficit

1963

$4.8 Billion Deficit

$36.64 Billion Deficit

1964

$5.9 Billion Deficit

$44.36 Billion Deficit

1965

$1.4 Billion Deficit

$10.37 Billion Deficit

1966

$3.7 Billion Deficit

$26.62 Billion Deficit

1967

$8.6 Billion Deficit

$60.14 Billion Deficit

1968

$25.2 Billion Deficit

$169.13 Billion Deficit

1969

$3.2 Billion Surplus

$20.38 Billion Surplus

1970

$2.8 Billion Deficit

$16.87 Billion Deficit

1971

$23 Billion Deficit

$132.95 Billion Deficit

1972

$23.4 Billion Deficit

$130.73 Billion Deficit

1973

$14.9 Billion Deficit

$78.42 Billion Deficit

1974

$6.1 Billion Deficit

$28.91 Billion Deficit

1975

$53.2 Billion Deficit

$231.3 Billion Deficit

1976

$73.7 Billion Deficit

$303.29 Billion Deficit

1977

$53.7 Billion Deficit

$207.34 Billion Deficit

1978

$59.2 Billion Deficit

$212.19 Billion Deficit

1979

$40.7 Billion Deficit

$130.87 Billion Deficit

1980

$73.8 Billion Deficit

$209.66 Billion Deficit

1981

$79 Billion Deficit

$203.08 Billion Deficit

1982

$128 Billion Deficit

$309.93 Billion Deficit

1983

$207.8 Billion Deficit

$487.79 Billion Deficit

1984

$185.4 Billion Deficit

$417.57 Billion Deficit

1985

$212.3 Billion Deficit

$461.52 Billion Deficit

1986

$221.2 Billion Deficit

$471.64 Billion Deficit

1987

$149.7 Billion Deficit

$308.02 Billion Deficit

1988

$155.2 Billion Deficit

$306.72 Billion Deficit

1989

$152.5 Billion Deficit

$287.74 Billion Deficit

1990

$221.2 Billion Deficit

$395.71 Billion Deficit

1991

$269.3 Billion Deficit

$461.92 Billion Deficit

1992

$290.4 Billion Deficit

$484 Billion Deficit

1993

$255.1 Billion Deficit

$412.78 Billion Deficit

1994

$203.2 Billion Deficit

$320.5 Billion Deficit

1995

$164 Billion Deficit

$251.53 Billion Deficit

1996

$107.5 Billion Deficit

$160.21 Billion Deficit

1997

$22 Billion Deficit

$32.07 Billion Deficit

1998

$69.2 Billion Surplus

$99.28 Billion Surplus

1999

$125.6 Billion Surplus

$176.16 Billion Surplus

2000

$236.4 Billion Surplus

$320.76 Billion Surplus

2001

$127.3 Billion Surplus

$168.16 Billion Surplus

2002

$157.8 Billion Deficit

$205.2 Billion Deficit

2003

$377.6 Billion Deficit

$479.8 Billion Deficit

2004

$413 Billion Deficit

$511.14 Billion Deficit

2005

$318 Billion Deficit

$380.84 Billion Deficit

2006

$248 Billion Deficit

$287.7 Billion Deficit

2007

$161 Billion Deficit

$181.51 Billion Deficit

2008

$459 Billion Deficit

$498.37 Billion Deficit

2009

$1413 Billion Deficit

$1539.22 Billion Deficit

2010

$1294 Billion Deficit

$1386.92 Billion Deficit

2011

$1299 Billion Deficit

$1350.31 Billion Deficit

2012

$1100 Billion Deficit

$1120.16 Billion Deficit

2013

$759 Billion Deficit

Saturday, October 5, 2013

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Obamacare Website to be Shut Down for Repairs

Bedeviled by technology glitches that frustrated millions of consumers, the Obama administration is taking down its health overhaul website for repairs this weekend.
Enrollment functions of the healthcare.gov site will be unavailable during off-peak hours this weekend, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. The website will remain open for general information.
Technology problems overwhelmed the launch of new health insurance markets Tuesday, embarrassing the administration just when the health care law was supposed to be introduced to average consumers.
"Americans have seen once again that Obamacare is not ready for prime time," Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican, said in a statement. "A dysfunctional website is the least of that law's problems."
The administration is putting the best face on the situation, noting the unexpectedly strong interest from millions of consumers. "Americans are excited to look at their options for health coverage, with record demand in the first days of the marketplaces," said the release announcing the planned fixes.
The statement was headlined: "Health Insurance Marketplace Open for Business - Week One Success."
The state-level markets were designed to be the gateway to health insurance for people who don't have access to coverage on the job. Middle-class consumers will be able to buy government-subsidized private plans, while the poor and near-poor will be steered to Medicaid in states agreeing to expand the program.
Federal and state websites experienced problems this week. Some states, including Maryland, have also announced they are scheduling repairs.
Credit card companies, banks and other online service providers regularly take down websites for repairs. That may also become a feature of the new insurance program. The HHS release did not provide a specific schedule for this weekend's repairs.
The federal site, which serves 36 states, drew millions of users, an indication of strong consumer interest. Yet many people were unable to get on the site and others encountered glitches that prevented them from successfully completing their applications.
Many encountered a screen that told them to wait, and they did, sometimes for hours. Refreshing the screen only sent them to the back of the line.
Quite a few got hung up trying to create security questions to protect their accounts. The drop-down menus providing the questions would not populate. As a result, consumers could not advance through the application process and learn if they were eligible for a tax credit to help pay premiums, much less pick a plan.
Some who did make it through were timed out because they took too long comparing plans.
At the end of the first day at most a handful of people had managed to successfully enroll through the federal site.
However, by Friday, enrollments seemed to be picking up — though not yet at desired levels. The administration is not releasing numbers.
"We are pleased that enrollment for health care coverage through the new marketplaces is picking up," the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association said in a statement. "We expect enrollment to continue to increase."
The so-called Blues are major players in the individual insurance market, but some smaller insurers have yet to see any new customers.
By Monday, "there will be significant improvements in the online consumer experience," HHS said.
The upgrades include extra capacity for more users to get into the system, more technicians working round-the-clock to fix problems, and new pathways to get to the application faster. No details were given. Call centers are also getting more staff and HHS said wait times are now down to less than a minute.
The administration previously announced it is adding equipment to handle the high volume of users. Now it looks like software fixes are also needed.
Consumers have until Dec. 15 to enroll for coverage that starts Jan. 1.

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Urgent: Should Obamacare Be Repealed? Vote Here Now!

Obamacare: Worst Law Passed in Four Decades Must Be Stopped, Says Stockman

A backlog of Americans tried to get onto the Obamacare exchanges that went live on Tuesday, amid delays and glitches (and high demand/traffic) with the marketplaces.

Meanwhile, a shutdown continues as the GOP tries to defund, delay, or otherwise defang the law.
Related: Obamacare Could Mean Steep Rate Hikes in These Four States
David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan Administration, former member of Congress, and author of “The Great Deformation,” essentially says: bring it on. This, despite Obamacare being the law, passed in 2010 by a president who was re-elected in 2012 (while the candidate who ran on repealing it was defeated), and which has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
So why should it be repealed?
“It is the worst law ever passed in the last four decades by the federal government,” Stockman argues in the video above. “It is a massive entitlement to end all entitlements. It is going to cause a fiscal hemorrhage that is not even yet anticipated. It will tie up one-sixth of GDP in the most monstrous, massive, bureaucratic snarl that you can’t imagine. So therefore this needs to be stopped before it becomes operational.”
Related: Obamacare Could Mean Lower Rates in These Three States

Healthcare consultants like Jon Kingsdale -- who helped set up some of the state exchanges -- say these online Obamacare insurance “stores” will affect only the 5% to 10% of Americans who are uninsured (where they can now shop for insurance with transparency). Americans who purchase insurance this way qualify for government subsidies so that monthly premiums are not more than 9.5% of their income.

But Stockman expects these numbers to spike, speculating that more companies will follow the lead of GE (GE) and Walgreen (WAG) who have announced they will move employee or retiree healthcare benefits to private exchanges.
Once millions of additional Americans are “dumped” onto Obamacare exchanges, Stockman expects the cost to the government of subsidizing (with tax credits) these Americans’ insurance to swell.