Subj : Reductio
To   : Bob Klahn
From : Earl Croasmun
Date : Sun Nov 24 2013 01:19 pm

>>>>> http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05734sp.pdf
>>>> A bit more specifically, from page 102 of that document: "A
>>>> ôbudget,ö in customary usage, is a plan for managing funds,
> ...

>> Note, "the federal budget" as used by HIS source, is not
>> just the plan but the whole process through the END of the
>> fiscal year.

> How did you miss the words, " For purposes of this overview,
> however,"?

I did not miss them, I quoted them.  The GAO distinguishes between the 
customary general usage of the term "a budget" and the specific meaning of the 
term "budget" in the context of the Federal Budget Process, in a publication 
entitled A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESS.  Throughout 
YOUR cited document they discuss the budget process, not just the "wish list"
stage that you are pretending is the beginning, middle, end, and totality of 
it.  I showed the same thing in the 2014 budget request, where they show the 
ACTUAL budget receipts and the ACTUAL budget outlays, not just the ones wished
for before the BEGINNING of the fiscal year.  I showed the same thing in the 
very idea of a BALANCED BUDGET, which requires balance at the end of the fiscal 
year, not just a wished-for balance.  And your own use of the term in your last 
post just did the same!

You got into all of this as a diversion from your earlier belief that debt just 
goes away if the budget is balanced.  Your one foolish claim lead you to make a 
whole string of other foolish claims, a long string of unforced errors.


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