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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (17760)11/27/2007 5:15:44 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
If someone bashing the SS "alarmism" noted that the current deficit run by SS is not an issue, therefore projecting forward there is not a problem, what would you think of that "analysis". But when a Cato hack uses the same poor logic to bash GW, you think it worthwhile enough to post it here.

Social Security's future is a matter of mathematics and demographics. Without any changes to the system, outflow will exceed income in the future, the result of which will either be increased taxes or lower benefits (or both). It doesn't take someone with much more than a high double digit IQ to be able to grasp that reality.

Forecasting the future climate of the earth is an entirely different matter, orders of magnitude more complex, with guesstimations and computer simulated possibilities the best that can be prognosticated, in spite of the pseudo-scientific religious fervor of you red/green True Believers.

If you were half as clever as you fancy yourself to be, you wouldn't need to continually rely on straw man arguments, such as the above SS and GW example or the equally ridiculous creationist believer = climate change hysteria sceptic.

As for Cato "hacks", I'd be willing to bet that the night janitor at their Institute has a better grasp of logic than that displayed by your feeble attempts at obfuscation.

Have a nice day...
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