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To: Road Walker who wrote (328996)3/15/2007 1:44:12 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577883
 
The current headline number is also important data. Neither the current official budget deficit, nor the budget deficit not including SSA funds, is enough by itself to accurately reflect the fiscal situation.

Both numbers are readily available, both should really be "headline numbers", but news sources, and politicians, like giving things in simple terms, esp. if the simple term may be more favorable then the more complex reality.