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To: epicure who wrote (59988)	4/18/2008 11:49:13 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542247

So what might your decent argument (of course we'll assume it too will be slanted) be, to counteract the argument I posted. I'll be interested to read it. If there were an actual argument in there, I might try. But I find no argument in there. That's a presentation of a POV, not an argument. However, at least now you need wait no longer for an argument laying out the relevance of the resident of the white house to the data on the graph. Hah. "Republican presidents have borrowed more than Democratic presidents regardless of the inflation rate[4]." And how do we determine what presidents borrowed? How would you determine that a president borrowed and how much? Surely not by this: "[5] This number is derived from an average of the six Republican and five Democratic Presidents’ average debt increase for their terms." If the debt goes up on your watch, you must have borrowed? It couldn't be that the baby boomers just retired, for example, into ill conceived and underfunded entitlement systems instituted before you were even born. Nah. A reasonable proxy for how much "a president borrowed" might be the total shortfall in budgets he submitted to congress. It's certainly not the change in the debt during his tenure. [The least they could have done is make notations of tax increases and decreases, the size of deficits, the party controlling congress on the chart along with war notations, even if they didn't factor them in.]