anyone who wishes to talk intelligently about the budget should try this out first.[/quote]
I’m so tired of the biased Times’ interactive budget calculators.
Where’s Social Security means testing?
Where’s the complete withdrawal from the war by 2013?
Here’s a giant list of trivial cuts and minor tweaks that if you select every single one, barely closes the budget gap. Of in the case of the LA Time’s California Tool, doesn’t.
All they show is a collection of the pointless grandstanding proposals of the politicians.