Mr. Speaker, three words describe the government's economic statement yesterday: off-loading, unfairness and deception.
Conservative rhetoric about the debt is deceit at its worst. They have played with trick definitions to create a false illusion of greater debt reduction, but it is a fraud. The rate at which they will pay down federal debt stays exactly the same at $3 billion per year.
Will the government confess that under its plan federal debt will still total $436 billion a generation from now in the year 2021?