[Rhodes22-list] National Debt

[Slim]

Philip,

Yep, I'm a mathematical genius up to the number four.  My brain can't really
hear a 6.  I hear it as 3+3.  An 8 is heard as 4+4 and so on.  Everything is
broken down to its simplest form.  And all we do is add--one and two and
three...we never subtract, multiply or divide.  We have to keep things
really simple.  8-)

Slim

On 11/10/06 8:16 AM, "Philip" <3drecon at comcast.net> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
>   I read somewhere that musicians are supposed to be "naturals" in
> mathematics.  Written music is all timing, beats per measure etc.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
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> 
> Brad,
> 
> Where am I going with this?  What a question!  The debt is 8.5 trillion and
> you're asking, "Yeah?  So?  What's your point?"  Brad, aren't you the least
> bit concerned?  No, I don't have a better plan.  That's not my job.  I'm
> just a dumbass musician who can only count to four.  If I did have a plan,
> who'd listen to me?  It's the job of our congressmen to fix it.  They got us
> into this.  I get to bitch because I'm a voting, tax-paying citizen.
> 
> Where I'm going with this is that I think it's past time we should hold some
> feet to the fire and demand a fiscal solution.  It bothers me that this
> issue doesn't seem to be anywhere on the radar.  I think that's because:
> "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover
> that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
> (the Rummy post.  Um, the good Rummy, not the bad Rummy.)
> 
> Slim
> 
> On 11/9/06 10:13 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Slim,
>> 
>> Took a nap just now, thank-you, I feel much better (early show for a sim).
>> 
>> Just finding a definition of "national debt" without a slant is difficult
>> and a source of info without an 'axe to grind' is damn near impossible. I
>> form a lot of opinion from reading the Wall Street Journal on a daily
> basis
>> but even that source is suspect in many peoples view.  Here's the least
>> biased report I can find on short notice - and it has pictures too!  Ask
> me
>> again tomorrow after work (10 AM) and I'll be more specific.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._public_debt
>> 
>> The measure of GNP is relatively straight forward.  "National Debt" gets
>> trickier depending on what you want to include.  For example, social
>> security is often excluded because it is a "pay as you go" item, ie, an
> IOU,
>> and not included.  Include it and things get really scary.
>> 
>> So where are you guys going with this discussion?  Let me guess, new
> taxes?
>> How about this novel idea - cut spending!  Bush and friends have spent
> like
>> drunken sailors.  You have a plan to turn that around?  Great!
>> 
>> Brad
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/9/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thank you, Dave.  Brad?
>>> Slim
>>> 
>>> On 11/9/06 7:46 PM, "DCLewis1 at aol.com" <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Slim & Brad,  Factoids:
>>>> 
>>>> US GDP end  2005                   $12,455,800,000,000   source
>>>> _http://eh.net/dgp/_ (http://eh.net/dgp/)
>>>> US Nat  debt   9/30/2005           $ 7,932,709,661,723.50   source
>>>> _http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm_
>>>> (http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm)
>>>> 
>>>> Nat Debt/GDP  = 63%               A  small fraction of the GDP?
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
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