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2016 Postmortem

Jeff In Milwaukee

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10. Chart #2 will never (EVER) appear on Fox News

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 09:58 AM

Dec 2012

You and your god-damned accuracy!

Harumph!!

Yes, I used to exclamation points there to show my utter disdain...

And ellipses to indicate that I had something more to say, even though I don't.

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Budget diagrams - why are Social Security and Medicare ever shown on diagrams of the Federal [View all] hedgehog Dec 2012 OP

You answered your own question DJ13 Dec 2012 #1

Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) skrempi313 Dec 2012 #2

Do you know the source of that top chart and what the chart itself is labeled? Samantha Dec 2012 #3

I pulled the images off a Google image search; hedgehog Dec 2012 #4

I usually pull my statistics from the Congressional Budget Office Samantha Dec 2012 #8

This is the Elephant in the room Hydra Dec 2012 #5

It's even worse than the second chart makes it appear... Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #11

Medicare gets approximately 42% of it's expendure from federal general revenue PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #6

So wait. Do I have these numbers right? Squinch Dec 2012 #7

Just pure speculation on my part, but maybe the Federal Government "borrowed" from the Samantha Dec 2012 #9

Chart #2 will never (EVER) appear on Fox News Jeff In Milwaukee Dec 2012 #10