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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45427)	8/30/2010 10:09:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

My point is not "I have this great projection that use's impecable logic", but rather that the CBO's assuming of its own conclusion is faulty logic. Well its faulty logic if your asking the question "Does the extra spending help the economy". If your asking instead "Assuming Spending a dollar in category A helps by X, category B helps by Y, category C helps by Z, etc., then given the amount we spent and the way we spent it, how was the economy helped. I suppose there might be some mild academic interest in such a calculation. But if its represented as proving that the spending helped the economy, its circular reasoning and therefore useless. They shouldn't use it, and other people can't reasonably use it, as proof of, or even evidence of any such thing.