>>>>> No it is not. The budget is a wish list of where the   
   >>>>> administration and congress plan to spend money, it does not   
   >>>>> actually spend one single penny.   
      
   >>>> Here is another amazing klahnism for your entertainment.   
   >>>> If that is all there is to a budget, it would be really   
   >>>> easy to balance the budget.  All you have to do is WISH for   
   >>>> it to be balanced!   
      
   >>> Yep.   
      
   >> It is no fun when you illustrate his error by reducing his   
   >> position to an absurd conclusion, and then instead of   
   >> recognizing his error he embraces the absurdity.   
      
   > You can balance the budget that way in the beginning of the   
   > fiscal year, but not at the end.   
      
   There he is, folks, in his red nose and his floppy shoes, acting like a fool   
   for the sake of entertaining people.  Here, he has just done a complete   
   back-flip.   
      
   This started with him making the the absurd claim that a budget surplus is not   
   needed in order to pay off the federal debt.  Just having a BALANCED budget,   
   he said, would cause the debt to disappear over time.   
      
   In an effort to make that seem less stupid, he tried to argue that debt IS   
   revenue.  And he tried to argue that paying off debt IS spending.  He later   
   came up with a limited definition of "budget" as "wish list" which would mean   
   that NO merely-wished-for surplus or deficit would EVER affect actual debt,   
   since they are just wishes.  And now, when the absurdity of that is pointed   
   out to him, he uses "budget" in a manner that completely contradicts his own   
   definition of the word.   
      
   Applaud.  Laugh.  He is putting on a show.   
      
      
      
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