The Political Party

[mauser]

Across the board cuts are needed.

You can't cut one area and spend more elsewhere and make any headway.

[pink freud]

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mauser wrote:
Across the board cuts are needed.

You can't cut one area and spend more elsewhere and make any headway.

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This is mathematically false. Cutting 5% of something that is 25% of your budget does more than cutting 50% of something that is 2% of your budget. If you spend less than the remaining .0025% you do indeed make headway.

This is why I and people like me were rolling our eyes at ll the right-wing pundits when they were bitching about NPR while refusing to even look at multi-billion dollar expenses elsewhere (AKA the military).

[mauser]

Pink: Roll your eyes and be as pedantic as you wish.

[stratosaurus]

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Tom Hicks wrote:

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kav wrote:
Let the previously agreed upon sequestration cuts occur. People can then see the results of austerity up close and pesonal and decide if they like it.

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the GOP will cave.

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You're probably right. The only thing both parties are seriously interested in, is how to avoid addressing the issues. I'm for letting the sequestration go ahead. There is no chance that they will do anything until they are absolutely force to the point of no other option. Their inaction has created a constant system of moving from one crisis to the next, while instilling a lack of confidence & uncertainty in every single person in the U.S.  As soon as they settle the Mar.1 deadline(kick the can down the road), it is followed  immediately by another imminent "crisis" situation that they have created.They are doing nothing "real", nothing effective & nothing at all to create the atmosphere or even give the illusion that thing will get better. Nothing to drive the economy to get better.

Besides the politicians, it will take no less than something like sequestration or even austerity to drive the people to the painful point that they are forced to accept what will be necessary to be done, regardless of which party you support.

 Sequestration.....bring it on.

[pink freud]

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mauser wrote:
Pink: Roll your eyes and be as pedantic as you wish.

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Math will always have more weight than your gut feeling.

[stratosaurus]

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pink freud wrote:

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mauser wrote:
Pink: Roll your eyes and be as pedantic as you wish.

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Math will always have more weight than your gut feeling.

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Math carries no weight in politics.

The problem that we have here, is that we're dealing with political math, which never adds up....regardless of which party is doing the math. Given the strange parameters that gov't invokes. political math can add 2+2 & come up with any number they want it to.

[pink freud]

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stratosaurus wrote:

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pink freud wrote:

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mauser wrote:
Pink: Roll your eyes and be as pedantic as you wish.

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Math will always have more weight than your gut feeling.

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Math carries no weight in politics.

The problem that we have here, is that we're dealing with political math, which never adds up....regardless of which party is doing the math. Given the strange parameters that gov't invokes. political math can add 2+2 & come up with any number they want it to.

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Fortunately I was merely disproving a forumite's blurting, not a congressman.

[Tom Hicks]

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pink freud wrote:

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mauser wrote:
Across the board cuts are needed.

You can't cut one area and spend more elsewhere and make any headway.

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This is mathematically false. Cutting 5% of something that is 25% of your budget does more than cutting 50% of something that is 2% of your budget. If you spend less than the remaining .0025% you do indeed make headway.

This is why I and people like me were rolling our eyes at ll the right-wing pundits when they were bitching about NPR while refusing to even look at multi-billion dollar expenses elsewhere (AKA the military).

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excellant analysis of the recent GOP election platform of cutting funds for Big Bird, while boosting overall miltary spending at the same time.

voodoo economics indeed.