PoliticalChic
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Craig Steiner is a software engineer. Simply because he has a neat looking web page and posts a bunch of numbers does not mean he is knowledgable about the topic. If I want to know about software code for a mobile phone, I will ask a software engineer. If I want to know about how the government keeps it's books, I will ask a financial analyst or an economist. Can you find any making the same argument?
"...does not mean he is knowledgable about the topic."
To anyone who notes that the debt continues to climb, it is more than counterintuitve to claim that there could be a real surplus.
No matter his vocation, it is his argument that makes more sense than the counter. You, of course, may define a surplus into existence...but that hardly means that one exists.
Economics is not a science, although euphemistically called the 'dismal science,' as is indicated by your attempts to use same to show that the debt increases, but there is a surplus...
...for amplication:
When Albert Einstein died, he met three New Zealanders in the queue outside the Pearly Gates. To pass the time, he asked what were their IQs. The first replied 190. "Wonderful," exclaimed Einstein. "We can discuss the contribution made by Ernest Rutherford to atomic physics and my theory of general relativity".
The second answered 150. "Good," said Einstein. "I look forward to discussing the role of New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation in the quest for world peace".
The third New Zealander mumbled 50. Einstein paused, and then asked, "So what is your forecast for the budget deficit next year?" The Economist, June 13th 1992, p. 71).