The Senator-elect from Illinois has dubious math skills

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Your understanding is what is wrong. My graph is a graph (from Congressional Budget Office stats) of the deficit over time and the major contributions to it.

Your graph is the 2009 budget.

Those are two different things.

Wouldn't your lefty group have to obtain budget information from the CBO to determine what was spent on what. ie Iraq and Afghan war v. say Recovery measures v. future Government pension obligations v. increased health care spending. Ooops CBPP.org left those factors out. Wonder if that was on purpose?

BTW When the graph is titled Legacy of Bush Policies? Enough said.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Wouldn't your lefty group have to obtain budget information from the CBO to determine what was spent on what. ie Iraq and Afghan war v. say Recovery measures v. future Government pension obligations v. increased health care spending. Ooops CBPP.org left those factors out. Wonder if that was on purpose?

BTW When the graph is titled Legacy of Bush Policies? Enough said.

Stop with the "lefty group", that's absurd and silly. There is nothing wrong with that graph, it's appeared in multiple sources for the past year and it's been vetted.

Are you crazy? The stuff is there in front of your eyes - Look at the graph! The itemization cost over time of the two wars are listed, the various recovery measures are listed, and the white at the bottom contains the regular routine stuff exclusive of the itemized stuff at the top.

Geeshus cripes. Dell - your graph is the budget for one year. The graph I posted is the debt we owe. Two different things. I have no idea what you are trying to say with your budget graph, other than to list a bunch of random gross cuts you would make off the top of your head.