Talk:2009 United States federal budget

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How does the multi-trillion bailout figure into this? vroman (talk) 22:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That impacts the 2010 budget. This budget was submitted and passed at the beginning of 2008. TastyCakes (talk) 22:20, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The graph showing actual revenue and spending was very useful up to 2009 in showing the discrepancy between projected and actual. Unfortunately, it continued the lines representing "actuals" beyond 2009, which are actually projections. The narrative associated with the graph was OK, but I felt included too much attribution to President Bush. For example, the "Bush budget" was approved by Congress, as was the subsequent spending. These results should be attributed to the overall federal government, and not just the president. If the chart were re-inserted without the projections from 2009, and the accompanying narrative more purely descriptive and little more balanced about how far off the original federal budget was as a means for helping to explain our deficits in that period, this would be a valuable addition to this article. DocGov (talk) 10:59, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Might I also point out, the FY2009 budget was not passed in 2008, as would have been the customary practice. Tired of battles with Bush, the Congress used a Continuing Resolution in Sept 2008 to punt the budget process 5 months, until after a new President would be in the White House. This an interesting historical precedent. The Wiki should reflect that the FY2009 budget was signed into law on March 11, 2009 by President Obama. If there are no objections, I'd like to include that information, with resources, in this article. DocHolliday (talk) 05:15, 2 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Error in Social Security Spending

The FY2009 Federal Budget shows Social Security Mandatory spending to be $944 billion. In fact, it is $644 billion. Reference: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy09/pdf/budget/tables.pdf Hagenjr (talk) 10:56, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the graph to match this change. Tom Hopper (talk) 14:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deficit

The actual deficit requires a source. I changed the table back to the estimated deficit until this can be provided. Sleepeeg3 (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]