I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
We get engaged. I buy you a $10,000 ring. Excited?
I used your credit card. Still excited?
Yes? Then vote Republican.
Wow.
Accumulated Deficits? Huh? I thought we just called that "The Debt". $4 billion.... that's a hoot.
Shouldn't that be four trillion dollars, and not four billion, if we're talking about the projected budget deficits over the next decade?
Not that we need WORSE news...
CS
It's okay. Bush also has astronomical approval ratings of 53 percent.
Just 4 trillion?
Jesus will come back before the bill comes due, you can count on it....that's the neat thing about living in end times.
There are no bond rating agencies in the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Dear lord, the NY Times is lambasting Bush's economic policy and you still have to trash it? What the hell do you need?
Accumulated deficits means that the deficits over the next 10 years will total $4 (tr)illion. Yes, it is a typo, and a rather unfortunate and goofy one.
You can put [t]he other 99 percent get a five percent cut in bold faced also. Whatever the intended meaning of that is, its wrong.
Yes, it is a typo, and a rather unfortunate and goofy one.
I disagree. A "typo," as you so optimistically put it, might say
"A $4 brillion deficit"
or
"A $4 tillion deficit"
Putting a billion where a trillion should be might qualify as a mistake, but it most definitely is not a "typo."
Semantics!
This is not necessarily an error. Perhaps the writer is British, in whose idiom our "billion" is their "thousand million", and our "trillion" is their "billion". Their "trillion" is 10^18. As is usual for me, I think the British system more logical than the American: "bi-million" = one million squared = 10^12 = one billion; "tri-million" = one million cubed = one trillion.
Also playing the 'Brit card' here.
$4 billion per household?
Alternately our "billion" is their "milliard", at least in French and Russian.
Billion, trillion, what's the difference anyway.
I suspect the B got there because nobody in the press room belived the T. Read it and weep people. It is just as likely that it will be worse than that. Perhaps much worse. Is it any wonder we will need more wars as an excuse.
Adam - it's more of a commentary about how every single error the Times makes is chalked up to liberal bias, yet when the (increasingly mistake-ridden) paper makes an obvious mistake that can't be chalked up to liberal bias...we're supposed to overlook it.
(Why isn't Judith Miller a household name like Jayson Blair? He just made up interviewing people for human interest pieces. She helped get us into a war based on false information.)
We get engaged. I buy you a $10,000 ring. Excited? ... --EssJay
Sorry, you used her credit card to buy the $10,000 ring for someone else (with maybe a handbag for her thrown in). Exactly what Bush has done to American people.
Four trillion dollars in debt in five years if this jerkwad stays in office.
Don't forget, we gotta rebuild the power grid and attack Iran!
I used your credit card to buy my ex-wife a million-dollar beachfront house, and the real estate agent gave me your engagement ring for free.
Oh, well, the NitWiTimes happily kisses the staff of the Powers That Kick Its Ass and takes the staff up to its tonsils. Hey, it's easier than thinking.
Why project out till 2010 when a new administration either in 2004 or 2008 will reverse most of that by implementing a tax increase on the top 1% in order to reverse spending and financing deficits?
Fair & Balanced Buckeye MYOB'
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Beware the balanced budget amendment.
--We get engaged. I buy you a $10,000 ring. Excited?
I used your credit card. Still excited?
Yes? Then vote Republican.--
This should read:
We get engaged. I buy you a $10,000 ring. Excited?
I used your credit card. Still excited?
Voting Republican: Priceless
ok, I used your credit card to buy this $10,000 ring for someone else, and this beautiful plastic ring for you. Honey, you are getting a ring having an average value of $5,000.50.
smoke and mirrors.
that reporter should get a job at Arthur Anderson!
The current combined federal and state debt is in excess of 14 trillion dollars. What will it be in 10 years?
clearly there is a financial castastrophe waiting to happen
Here's an article in Asia Times that explains what the deficit situation really means, suggesting what has caused it, why it has occured and where it is eventually going to end.
Fascinating yet disturbing.
The article is excellent with only the "billion" error instead of "trillion" to mar it. The NYTimes is generally superb. Correct it when it needs correcting, but do not ridicule it.
Simply send an e-mail to the editor of the New York Times and the correction will be made. There are corrections every single day.
You would have thought they were talking about the WSJ editorial page, eh Emma and bevivino? I don't like it when people are so blinded by ideology that they have to ridicule either a mistake or some sort deviation from their ideological purity. The right is definitely guilty of this, but unfortunately so is the left, who I'm a tad more sympathetic to.
Suggested title of a book I'd want to write:
Crossfire: Dodging Bullets from the Left and the Right.
Only $4 billion for me to get 17% cut in my taxes? Excellent.
Adam is a right wing loon. Troll of trolls is Adam the loon.
As Mr. Bush's "growth" program rolls out, the richest 1 percent of Americans can expect an estimated 17 percent cut in their taxes by 2010, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The other 99 percent get a 5 percent cut
This is none other than a recipe for the ruination of the United States.
Let's just make it a gadzillion. Same effect as 4 trillion.
I don't like it when people are so blinded by ideology that they have to ridicule either a mistake or some sort deviation from their ideological purity. The right is definitely guilty of this, but unfortunately so is the left, who I'm a tad more sympathetic to.--
Adam, get with the times. (No pun intended.)
The paper has serious problems with factual errors. Like most anything involved with the media, it's blamed on liberals.
You seem to share the same schtick as Mickey Kaus and Michael Totten, which is "liberal who criticizes other liberals". It's your right to do that, but also expect to be called on it. To you, criticism of the New York Times for errors or publishing the columns of a potentially dishonest hack columnist with little to say is wrong, even on the level of wishing for another Vietnam. And that's just hyperbolic nonsense on your part.
If you have criticisms to make, fine. But when your criticisms are so shrill, tone-deaf, and removed from reality that it doesn't even seem as if you're talking about the same thing as the person you're criticizing, you have a problem. I'm sure you'll accuse me of being a fascist, or being worse than the right, or eating babies, or *something*, but this false equivalency bullshit is, well, bullshit.
Bragg. Rick Bragg.
Living up to my name...
Just like that liberul Times to blame our Feerless Leeder for the deficit.
We all know it's really the fault of the Clenis.
dom- good link even though the TOE doesn't blame Bush it does blame Reagan for starting the whole mess, so it's O.K. by me.
fuzzy math must be infectious.
Repeat after me. Taxes on the wealthy can only go up, never down. Everyone is entitled to an income tax rebate, even those who paid no income taxes. Tax increases are the way to prosperity.
Hey, what's three orders of magnitude among friends?
Especially in this atrociously innumerate society. Maybe we can get them to spend $4 billion a month on education.
NYT published a correction this morning.
We get engaged. I buy you a $10,000 ring. Excited?
I used your credit card. Still excited?
Yes? Then vote Republican.
Breathtaking! Make this simple analogy a centerpiece of any Democratic political campaign and-- nah, too easy.
when is anyone going to notice that George's deficit reduction plan does not include any future spending on Iraq.
How can we have a balanced budget in 5 years if the budget doesn't include ALL of the spending
George Bush, the three card monte President
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