and Holey Math!
The words are not as bad* as the math or the understanding of the checks and balances and full faith in budgets or IOU's.
* Picking up from the last link(or 2) in the last post I must note the biased(although that is relative)source(mediaite) and dig out the Paul Krugman and Peter G. Peterson sources above. And I have to say that there is no comparison to the "gotcha journalism" of recent controversy. Commissioner Simpson was the aggressor who stood his ground in error or at least two worlds, confusing the IOU's with the Lock Box. i.e. the double hit is not, except for the interest that is robbing Paul to not pay Peter. No pun on sources, but I must note that we have a strange convergence of agreement, Simpson must go or actually be used to school the debate. But I will unthread these sources to D-Day(the Derivatives article) in Progressive Breakfast with a side of Simpson a link to Krugman, and from him to The Fiscal Times(of Peter G. Peterson). Has one ever seen such bipartisan agreement that Simpson should go for several reasons?[bold added 1-31-11] But does it not boil down to this? The double hit is really a double pick pocket or some such farther from faith and credit to government.
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Regarding the MoveOn Ad, I have posed a question or metophor that needs some schooling. i.e. http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2010/06/flash-words.html or Freakin Math? Here is my question: Is not the "double hit" more of a Double Pick Pocket? Or to use a Krugman metaphor "Zombie" faith and credit? Could someone put it in terms that more people could see how they are using a "double accounting" method inside out or at least to create a monster?
Please note comment made before finding http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-altman/alan-simpsons-ignorance_b_622917.html although it does not really touch the Zombie pick-pocket accounting. But a potential missing cog in my metaphor is that are we really paying interest into the Social Security Fund that is being "borrowed" from to mask the Federal Deficit, which has actually been semi-corrected for by the current administration, if that is the case(like the cost of war).
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