Wall Street Journal Economics Editor David Wessel is looking ahead to the White House's release of the annual budget on Monday, and he anticipates some emphasis on building a stronger economy as a means of reducing the deficit. Wessel is not expecting big proposals on dealing with the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, in part because of the fear that any such proposals would be dead on arrival-- "Republicans will shoot them down and they'll be dead."
Read Wessel's column here.
Posted
02-10-2011 7:39 AM
by
Graham Griffith