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To: bentway who wrote (360724)	11/29/2007 11:36:36 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575067

Climate Change Scientists Warn ‘Loads More Bad Stuff’ In a shocking report released by the World Climate Change Investigative Committee yesterday, scientists have warned of ‘some really bad stuff, more bad than the last stuff’. The report goes on to say that if we continue to burn fossil fuels, strip forests, and sneak empty coke cans into the black bin instead of the blue bin, then the human race is headed for that total annihilation and rapid extinction that they warned about before – only more so. The latest grim warning also highlights a potentially crippling shortage of words to describe clime change events. It reports that ‘due to previous reports hyping up the patchy initial findings, they have needlessly squandered the world’s resources of really frightening words. ‘Where a one degree rise in polar sea temperatures should have just been ‘of some concern’ in 1989, this was reported in the press as ‘apocalyptic, Armageddon, and catastrophe,’ explained Professor Regis, the chairman of the committee. ‘Now we have discovered even more really scary stuff, but we’ve used up the shock words.’ The Committee have timetabled all of the potential adjectives which can be used to describe cataclysmic climate changes in future, in order to conserve the few words they have left. The general public have reacted with alarm at the latest findings but refused to despair at the apparent hopelessness of the situation. ‘I recycle my newspapers and buy my petrol from a green coloured pump, so I think everything is probably going to be OK if we all do that,’ said one consumer. newsbiscuit.com

To: bentway who wrote (360724)	11/29/2007 12:06:46 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575067

Chris, > To break this down to where you can understand it, imagine you personally didn't make enough to pay your bills, and were making up the difference by charging it to credit cards. The amount you charged to credit cards would be your DEFICIT. Now, imagine that you cut your expenses and raised your salary enough so that you didn't NEED the credit cards ( on which you still owed a DEBT ), but instead were saving a SURPLUS. Imagine if, even after paying the interest, the balance on the credit cards continued to grow. That means either someone has stolen your credit card or you are not being honest with your finances. To repeat a line in the article (which you obviously failed to read): > Unfortunately, gross debt -- which includes obligations in the Social Security trust fund and other government trust funds, as well as publicly held debt -- increased by $291.7 billion during the same period of reported "surplus." Or more accurately, you're borrowing against your 401k and calling that "income." Only in the case of SS, you're going to make up for the loss of retirement savings by demanding that future generations "put their noses to the grindstone to pay for YOUR benefits." Tenchusatsu