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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: "Death of America"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.191333.17839@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1993Jan8.015030.23831@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:13:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.015030.23831@oracle.us.oracle.com> kwee@oracle.uucp (Karl Wee) writes:
- >
- >Please read the earlier posts. The man was saying if real interest rate
- >remains the same, if the economy grows at a certain constant rate until 1999,
- >etc., then the ratio of debt to GDP will begin to drop in 1999. Give
- >me a break. The man may have the numbers but no common sense. It is ludicrous
- >to talk about narrow escapes which will remain narrow escapes for another few
- >decades, all dependent on such assumptions remaining true for so long.
-
- A scenario is not a plan or a prediction. Further, you are
- analysing the usefulness of the presentation on grounds other than
- it was given. It was given as a response to a question.
-
- >It is analyses like this that enable politicians to say "We needn't do
- >anything radical to balance the budget." If we lack the courage to do
- >something radical, the chance of escape is very small.
-
- The scenario did contain something radical (by current federal
- government fiscal practice): a freeze on real program spending.
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