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Larry Kudlow finds, under a huge rock, the U.S. budget deficit is shrinking.

Larry Kudlow, of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Cramer” scopes out the good financial news again.  Seems the liberal media is, amazingly, missing the story about the shrinking U.S. budget deficit. 

Memo to mainstream liberal news media:  It’s the news, stupid.

Here’s one story you won’t find on tomorrow’s front pages: “The U.S. Budget Deficit Is Shrinking Rapidly.” The headline would be accurate, but the mainstream media is much more interested in talking down this booming economy than telling it like it is.

This week’s Treasury report on the nation’s finances for December shows a year-to-date fiscal 2005 deficit that is already $11 billion less than last year’s. In the first three months of the fiscal year that began last October, cash outlays by the federal government increased by 6.1 percent while tax collections grew by 10.5 percent. When more money comes in than goes out, the deficit shrinks.

At this pace, the 2005 deficit is on track to drop to $355 billion from $413 billion in fiscal year 2004. As a fraction of projected gross domestic product, the new-year deficit will descend to 2.9 percent compared with last year’s deficit share of 3.6 percent. []

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