XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.guns   
   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "X, formerly known as "!Jones""  wrote in message   
   news:tpni8jdp3ohvr4qg6ub3vm968l4g85boo0@4ax.com...   
   > If this is a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!   
   >   
   >>Wrong and wrong.   
   >>   
   >>It's government *debt* that's not a bad thing. The surplus was   
   >>reducing the debt. If the surplus had continued long enough, the   
   >>debt would go to zero which is also not a bad thing.   
   >>   
   >>The US has proven to pay off its debt until Don Felon which is   
   >>good thing because it reduces the interest we pay. Having debt and   
   >>paying it off is a positive thing.   
   >>   
   >>With Reagan we lost control of the deficit. If you liken the   
   >>economy to real estate, the deficit is a loan against equity   
   >>appreciation. But you have to keep the deficit under control in   
   >>case some day the family gets real sick and we have to borrow till   
   >>we get better.   
   >   
   > You jumped in before we got there.  Yes, a surplus is, actually, a   
   > negative deficit and debt is an unreconciled deficit.  I think of the   
   > national budget like my body weight... neither over-weight nor   
   > under-weight is a healthful condition.  The "ideal body mass index" is   
   > a theoretical target, such that, if you're within 5%, you're doing   
   > well.   
      
   Only problem is we are about 711% over weight right now so holding to within   
   5% of that isn't going to make you healthy..   
      
   Right now we need to be losing weight big time... which means fiscal   
   dieting.   
      
   Government needs to go on a diet and needs to be forced to slim down and get   
   fit.   
      
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