{"id":1436,"date":"2005-01-26T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/fuzzy_math_1\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T08:10:52","slug":"fuzzy_math_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/fuzzy_math_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s reality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The White House announced on Tuesday that the federal budget deficit was expected to rise this year to $427 billion, a figure that includes a new request from President Bush to help pay for the war in Iraq.
\nThe White House’s announcement makes it the fourth straight year in which the budget deficit was expected to grow; as recently as last July the administration had predicted that the deficit, which was $412 billion last year, would fall this year to $331 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s fantasy:<\/p>\n

In a briefing for reporters on Tuesday, senior administration officials insisted they were still on track to fulfill Mr. Bush’s campaign promise of reducing the federal budget deficit by half by 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps this stems from my background in the humanities, rather than math, but how are four years of growing budget deficits putting us on a path of halving the red ink within five years? If you were to plot that on a graph, it would require an awful bizarre equation.
\nThe entire article highlights how the White House claims are even more laughable when you factor in the costs of upcoming expenses: entitlement increases, permanent<\/i> military bases in Iraq, and, of course, permanent tax cuts for millionaires. We’re at war, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s reality: The White House announced on Tuesday that the federal budget deficit was expected to rise this year to $427 billion, a figure that includes a new request from President Bush to help pay for the war in Iraq. The White House’s announcement makes it the fourth straight year in which the budget deficit […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}