Deficits Don't Matter

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DailyKos brings attention to more shady dealings in the Bush administration with this post about how the Bush administration is using the Treasury Department to go after Kerry's budget proposal. Since the Bush campaign has only $170 million, it needs to use civil servants (paid for by all of us) to do their opposition research. But I caught this graph at the bottom, accompanied by Kos' desire to see the Treasury folks do an "analysis" of projected deficits under Bush's budget.

The word "trillion" does inspire an image of something very very large. But using "billions" for units of measure on the graph of the predicted cumulative deficit for years 2004 to 2014 makes it even more stunning. Say it out loud, "two thousand billion dollars". Or, for more of an effect, "two million million dollars". If you had a million dollars, you would have one two-millionth of the amount needed to balance the ten year deficit.

Dear God. Even Reagan, were he in his right mind, would look at that and say, "Oh yeah, that deficit there? That matters."

The original copy of the article is found here(2071.org).
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