If the yahoos had been successful in achieving the goal, then the projected national debt in 10 years would be a mere 23.8 trillion . . . instead of the 25 trillion we'll get as a result of their failure.
Whoop-de-do.
If Boehner were serious about setting the budget back to 2008 levels, we'd save about $900,000,000,000 in one year - that's about how much Obama & Co. have jacked up annual Federal spending since then. (Note that this would be about 3/4 of the supercommittee's TEN year goal - in ONE year!)
These arseholes need to stop playing shell games with supposed "10 year budgets."
No Congress has the power to compel future Congresses to spending plans. Otherwise, there's no reason to have elections in 2/4/6/8 years if we lock in 10 year spending plans.
This is all smoke and mirrors for the American public.
The only reason they are talking about 10 year budgets is to multiply the amount of cuts they are proposing by 10-fold, while talking about annual deficit amounts in this year's budget. I keep hearing the nooz talk about 1.5 trillion annual budgets, and 1.2 trillion spending cuts over the next 10 years, in the same sentence.
I'm tired of the lies.