Social Security and Deficit Reduction: Some Fun with Numbers
…some mechanism I am missing that is how the numbers run. Okay now say in the interest of deficit and debt reduction we cut our benefits program by $100 billion…
…some mechanism I am missing that is how the numbers run. Okay now say in the interest of deficit and debt reduction we cut our benefits program by $100 billion…
…should think in terms of numbers represented by their decimal expansions, which are in effect sums of ever smaller numbers, although in the case of a whol number, the numbers…
…and tinkered. I first had to get the accounting right. Then I had to find the right numbers. Then I had to apply a process of deduction to calculate numbers…
…Security Tour of Spring 2005 itself throughly dishonest. These numbers show clearly why “There is No Crisis” was a relatively easy campaign to win, our side had the numbers. Well…
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