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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45517)	9/1/2010 6:23:47 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Sustained DEFICIT SPENDING necessitates borrowing to cover the gap . But "Spending" is not the same as "sustained deficit spending". And if the conditions are such that extra spending will be deficit spending (and "sustained deficit spending" if its sustained) that only means the borrowing is the consequences of the spending. The consequence of something isn't that thing. Even the inevitable unavoidable consequences of some thing, is a separate thing, from the cause. A) WHEN? (What time period? What 'spending'? I've already answered that question. During the time Bush was president. B) I REFUSE to 'ignore borrowing costs' I'm not asking you to ignore them. I'm asking you to consider the other effects. I even said you could then add them on and get the total impact from all the extra spending (both the impact of the spending itself, and the impact of the borrowing). The damage from the borrowing is the main damage but that doesn't mean its the only damage. You don't have to ignore the damage from borrowing to speculate on the more minor damage, any more than you have to ignore the fact that most American combat deaths in WWII where caused by the armed forces of Germany or Japan, to consider the deaths from attacks that where not from those two countries (Italian armed forces, a small number from Vichy forces, possibly a few other minor enemies, and "friendly fire"). But I think I'll just drop the request. Obviously you aren't interested in it, and its a waste of time trying to drag it out of you, so consider the request withdrawn.