BOOYAH! MY FICTIONAL NUMBER BEATS YOUR FICTIONAL NUMBER!

Booyah! My Fictional Number Beats Your Fictional Number!
David Kurtz | July 27, 2011, 10:09AM



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Harry Reid's plan as advertised: $2.7 trillion
CBO projection: $2.2 trillion

John Boehner's plan as advertised: $1 trillion
CBO projection: $710 billion

Reid still wins, by a large margin. You can see why many Republicans aren't smitten with Boehner's plan.

But forget those figures for a moment. Here are the two numbers I'd really like to see: forecasted GDP under each plan and projected unemployment under each plan. That's a much sounder basis on which to evaluate these plans -- and the whole austerity craze -- than just ... whose is bigger.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/07/booyah_my_fictional_number_beats_your_fictional_nu.php?ref=fpblg

(where's George Carlin When We NEED him!, kpete)

the situation further. No matter which plan gets through this government, it will bring harm. But in America, its all about which party declares its Pyrrhic victory.

I don't believe either Reid or Boehner has the capacity to understand all of the important details.