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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 891365" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>The CBO is an organization whose rules are written by and designed for the benefit of the politicians in Washington.  Thats why Obamacare was originally scored as being deficit neutral as the bill was written to cause the CBO to count revenues and cost cuts twice in order to come up with a false budget analysis.  The CBO gets many things wrong, and the surplus is no different.  There was a "projected" surplus assming that the economy continued to grow like it did in the late 90s, that there would be no natural disasters, no military conflicts, no major terrorist attacks on our soil, etc.  A lot has changed since that projection was made wiping out the surplus, but that doesn't stop some from blaming Bush even though it was a bad projection.</p></blockquote><p></p>