>>>>> 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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