Bin Laden: after Abbottabad (merged thread)

[gute]

Earth to gute: Bush inherited a budget with surplus, his first own budget turned that into a deficit.
And as I mentioned: GWB increased spending in %GDP. He worsened revenue, spending and deficit. No white spot on his fiscal vest anywhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Re...993_-_2008.png

Federal expenses in %GDP were shrinking during the Clinton-Congress combo, but GWB-Congress combo led immediately to higher expenses and drastically less revenues. Same story with Reagan and Bush 41.

Here is a rebuttalhttp://www.craigsteiner.us/articles/16

We can go back-n-forth on this for days.

[Fuchs]

That article is founded on the same wrong (non-)economics that assert governments (or, for example Medicare) are bankrupt because they don't have the means to pay for future obligation NOW.


We should go back to Bin laden, though.
Fig leaf:

From Duffel Blog:

A major publisher of Navy SEAL memoirs reported today that a U.S. retaliation strike is “imminent” in Libya. Following the news stories of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Random Day spokesman Bill Klein stated that several of their company’s clients called with a preliminary manuscript for possible books.

“The first to contact us was Steve Faulkner,” Klein said. “He is with DEVGRU… you know, the SEAL Team Six guys. Anyway, he called us up late at night and said he wanted to present a new book idea for his autobiography, which would include several chapters on raids against terrorist camps in the Libyan desert.”

Klein said the conversation was cut short because Faulkner stated that he would be leaving the next morning and would be gone for awhile, possibly for several weeks. “OPSEC is so important to these guys,” said Klein, “so usually when a world event happens and they have to go respond, they’ll have to quickly send us a manuscript for their next book idea before they get on a plane to go and do an op.”

[gute]

That article is founded on the same wrong (non-)economics that assert governments (or, for example Medicare) are bankrupt because they don't have the means to pay for future obligation NOW.


We should go back to Bin laden, though.
Fig leaf:

From Duffel Blog:

Of course it is

I agree, let's get back to the OBL book