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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ctrl, post: 1304109, member: 13378&quot;]Don&#039;t see it. Maybe you have a custom browser that makes things up for you. My points have stayed the same. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They don&#039;t lie or deceive, but doing HISTORICAL COMPARISONS with absolute numbers DOES deceive. I never said insignificant, I said &quot;slight&quot; difference, as in 3%, 3% of numbers that are estimates anyway. I also never said anything about 5 weeks or minimum wage, that was you. Yes that difference, if spread among individuals would be 5 weeks of minimum wage. So? It&#039;s a large number yes, but it&#039;s 3.5% of the national GDP. It was a counter-illustration to contrast.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You missed it then, let me copy &amp; paste it for you:</p><p>&quot;There are steps that can be taken (in most reasonable peoples&#039; opinions&nbsp; that includes revenues). There are very clear reasons for how we went&nbsp; from a budget surplus to a huge deficit in a few years. Unpaid-for wars,&nbsp; huge tax cuts originally intended to return the surplus to people but&nbsp; now have somehow become sacred, out-of-control health care costs and a&nbsp; growing aging population. How people want to fix those things depends on&nbsp; people not being ideologically rigid, but realistic.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed. My only point was that using absolute numbers doesn&#039;t lead to that conclusion. The debt could be at very large absolute numbers, but actually be quite manageable given the huge GDP of the country. That&#039;s what matters. </p><p><br /></p><p>Again: compare someone who makes $100 million per year and someone who makes $10,000 per year. Give them each $100,000 debt. You&#039;re saying that because the absolute number $100,000 is conceptually large, that it has the same meaning to both of those people?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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