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Thursday, February 10, 2005

Fuzzy Math

This NYT Editorial nails it.
Whenever the Bush administration wants to sell a costly new program, look carefully before you accept any numbers it puts out. The math isn't just fuzzy, as the current euphemism would have it - it is often downright misleading, and deliberately so.

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The deficit-addicted government that he [Bush] has created doesn't have enough money coming in to pay for the programs that the public wants and deserves, not to mention the nation's defense.

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