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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (41900)	3/9/2010 9:09:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Yes it is what? Your post doesn't make a coherent point. Yes it (what the CBO said) is the issue? It wasn't in terms of the issue I was talking about, or in terms of the issue that the CBO claims to be talking about, or in terms of the issue that matters. The CBO isn't claiming that they said some words, the words they said aren't the issue even for the CBO. The CBO is making a claim about reality. The issue for them, and the important issue for the country is what's really happening, not what claim they made. They are (falsely) saying that most of the projected increase in the accumulated federal debt will be because tax cuts and interest. That's false as a matter of simple fact (as any look at even just the headline figures of the budgets would show in a matter of minutes). Its also would be misleading, even if it was true, in the context of arguing that spending isn't the primary problem, because interest on the debt is still spending. But even if you move interest from the spending side of the equation, and combine it with tax cuts instead, that combination is still smaller than the remaining/non-interest increases in spending.