Two long years to go | Salon.com
On the same day that Bush — a president who has never vetoed a congressional spending bill — preached “fiscal discipline,” David Walker, the comptroller general, appeared before Congress to describe the nation’s financial future. “Simply put,” Walker said bluntly, “our nation is on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path.”
We have a comptroller general?
I didn’t know that either. Apparently the head of GAO is the comptroller general.
I need a personal comptroller general.
Yup. He serves a 15 year term and the President can’t fire him (since he’s in the Legislative branch). The current one, Mr. Walker, has been doing a lot to scream about the bad fiscal footing we find ourselves on.