now since mr. lew submitted the president's budget, the congressional budget office, a bipartisan, nonpartisan group, basically the leadership elected by the democratic majority analyzed mr. lew in president -d president obama's budget said it's far lower than that. the lowest single deficit we'll have in ten years is is $740 billion. the highest president bush ever had was $450 billion. this is unbelievable. this year, the budget deficit is going to be over over $1,500,000,000,000. in the tenth year, c.b.o. said that mr. lew and president obama's budget would call for a a $1.2 trillion deficit. a clearly unsustainable path of surging debt in the out years going up, and that's why mr. bernanke, federal reserve chairman and erskine bowles, president obama's chairman of the deficit commission and all have said this is an unsustainable path. well, interest last year on the budget was $200 billion. we paid out $200 billion to people of china, governments of china, japan, all over the world and american cit