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To: TopCat who wrote (467050)	3/28/2009 3:15:13 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575624

Yep....of course the "real" reason to disclose the war costs now is in the interest of full disclosure....right? I am the first in line for full disclosure and fair reporting. But if they wanted that they would have included all the other off-budget stuff, too. It is disingenuous to just throw the war in there and say, "Okay, now we have fixed the disclosure problems from before". There are much bigger items (like SS) that are conveniently ignored. A more reasonable approach is to have a budget for the things we know we have to spend every year then to attach projections for things like wars and floods in NOLA that are unpredictable, so everyone knows what we're dealing with. As it is now, when we talk about a trillion dollar deficit most people don't know what is and is not included. The plain fact is that the Obama budget was done this way for one reason only -- to provide cushion for increasing social programs as we withdraw from Iraq. All administrations use gimmicks but what Obama is doing is beyond anything I've seen in my lifetime.