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Projected budgets, deficeits and surpluses are just that - projected. While they have some limited uses, they are poor reasons to make cases for radical shifts in action.
Like a boxing match or a battle, all plans go out the window at the first strike. I can pull out some charts from the beginning of the Bush administration which predicted great gains thanks to tax cuts. Didn't happen. I can show charts form the Clinoton era that showed by raising taxes would destroy the government's balance sheet. Didn't happen
On Tuesday you can project getting laid three times this weekend all you want, or plan on drinking yourself silly on a saturday and project yourself hungover on Sunday, but come the following monday you might find yourself still chaste, and despite polishing off that entire bottle of Absolute you were surprisingly hangover free on Sunday. Shit happens.
I put little stock in "projections". I'd rather see policy implemented given a chance and then measured in the real world. We tried it Bush's way for eight years and look where it got us. We're not even a year into Obama's administration and you're using projections fo gloom and some are arguing he's a nazi. Seriously. Someone is living in the real world and some are living in World of Warcraft, and it's not us liberals picking up armor at the blacksmith to fight the orcs.
- putting faith in projections without knowign how projections are done is silly.********
- but since gov is not transparent its good to take their number and double it.********
- Sure thing there. And you base this mathmatical formula on what then?TheBlueOne
- Half-baked, non-working ideology.TheBlueOne
- i liked the part about WoWzman
- i was thinking on historical data. how often are there numbers off projections, budgets and so on.********
- putting faith in projections without knowign how projections are done is silly.