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The Blue Dog Coalition February 7, 2009 David M. Walker President and CEO The Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Former Comptroller General of the United States

Composition of Federal Spending 1968

1988

Defense

Social Security

Net interest

All other spending

Source: PGPF analysis of Office of Management and Budget data.

2008

Medicare & Medicaid

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Federal Spending for Mandatory and Discretionary Programs 1968

Net Interest

1988

Discretionary

Source: PGPF analysis of Office of Management and Budget data.

2008

Mandatory

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Major Fiscal Exposures ($ trillions)

 Explicit liabilities  Publicly held debt  Military & civilian pensions  Other

$6.9

$12.2

0.5

1.4

13.0

42.9

3.8

6.6

2.7

12.7

6.5

15.7

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7.9

$20.4

$56.4

PBGC, undelivered orders

 Implicit exposures  Future

Social Security benefits  Future Medicare Part A benefits  Future Medicare Part B benefits  Future Medicare Part D benefits Total

2008

& retiree health

 Commitments & contingencies  E.g.,

2000

Source:  PGPF analysis of 2000 and 2008 Financial Report of the United States Government. Note: Totals may not add due to rounding.  Estimates for Social Security and Medicare are at present value as of January 1 of each year  and all other data are as of September 30.  

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How Big is Our Growing Fiscal Burden? This fiscal burden can be translated and compared as follows: Total –major fiscal exposures

$56.4 trillion

Total household net worth1

$56.5 trillion

Burden/Net worth ratio

99 percent

Burden2

Per person Per full-time worker Per household

$184,000 $435,000 $483,000

Income

Median household income (2007)3 Disposable personal income per capita (2007)4

$48,201 $33,253

Source: PGPF analysis of US Government data. Notes:  (1) Federal Reserve Board, Flow of Funds Accounts, Table B.100, 2008:Q3 (December 6, 2008); (2) Burdens are calculated using estimated total U.S.  population as of 10/1/2008, from the U.S. Census Bureau; full­time workers reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, in NIPA table 6.5D (Aug. 1, 2008); and  households reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, in Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 (Aug. 2008; (3) U.S. Census  Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 (Aug. 2007); and (4) Bureau of Economic Analysis, Personal Income and  Outlays, table 2, (Nov. 29, 2007).   5

Potential Fiscal Outcomes Under Alternative Simulation

Revenues and Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Percent of GDP

Revenue

Source:  GAO September 2008 analysis.

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The U.S. Federal Debt (Percentage of GDP) Past

Civil War

SOURCE: PGPF compilation. Projections based upon official government sources.

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Foreign Ownership Share of Federal Debt Held by the Public Has Increased

FY 1998

Total Debt Held by the  Public: $3.73 trillion

FY 2008

Total Debt Held by the  Public: $5.81 trillion

Foreign and international investors  Federal Reserve Domestic investors and state and local governments Source: PGPF summary of Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve data. Note: Totals and percent increases may not add due to rounding

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Key National Indicators: Where the United States Ranks The United States may be the only superpower, but compared to most other OECD countries on selected key economic, social, and environmental indicators, on average, the U.S. ranks

17 OUT OF 28 OECD Categories for Key Indicators (2007 OECD Factbook)

 Population/Migration  Macroeconomic

Trends  Prices

 Energy

 Environment

 Labor Market

 Education

 Science &

 Public

Tech.

Source:  PGPF analysis of 2007 OECD Factbook.

 Quality of

Life  Economic Globalization

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The Way Forward

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These Challenges Go Beyond  Numbers and Dollars— It’s About

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