Uh, no. The ADDED debt per year is what I'm talking about. Ignore the reported "deficit" numbers, they're cooked big time. Look how much is added to the national debt every year - that will tell you how much excess spending went on. President Bush was terrible, adding $5 trillion to the national debt. President Obama has doubled that, adding nearly $10 TRILLION to the national debt. That's the problem - and the real way to look at spending/revenue. And the last time we had an actual surplus - our debt went down - was back when Eisenhower was in the White House, about 60 years ago.
As far as SSI and intragovernmental debt, per GAAP standards that is debt and must be accounted for. It's owed money - it's not just "disappeared". Yes, the Government can welch on its promised obligations to people, but until it does so - that debt is legitimate and must be accounted for. Even if the CBO and the Government try to claim it isn't. If you have a loan from your 401K (like the Federal Government taking loans from the Social Security fund), then lenders will consider that as debt - which is correct (a financial obligation you have to pay).
The reason I'm focused on debt is because it's an absolute. Games are played with on/off budget deficits, etc (witness those claiming Clinton balanced it, had a surplus). The debt shows the real spending - if you spend more than you bring in, you have a deficit, the debt goes up. So many items are "not counted" in the official deficit that it's crazy. So look at the actual change in debt from year to year, not the reported deficit. That will tell you how much was actually spent relative to revenues...
Actually, SSI and Medicare are not self-funding; they've been running in the red for several years now. They are drawing out of the total Federal revenues. And the funds are not a "lock box" for you - the Supreme Court has ruled there is no right to any Social Security payment. Its funds have been part of the official budget for nearly 50 years, and funds have been used to buy T-bills (loans to the Federal Government) since the beginning, by statute. FICA payments are made to the Federal Government, those funds are loaned to the Federal Government, and the Federal Government has no legal requirement to pay back any of it. Does that mean it's separate and self-funding? In any real sense of those words - not a chance.
Social benefits, welfare, subsidized medical, and food stamps. About $0.70 of every dollar of spending by the Federal Government is spent on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare payments and servicing the national debt. Everything else - defense, IRS, EPA, transportation, education, customs, research, etc - comprises the other $0.30. SOURCE
Take a look at the debt I linked to. You cannot "hide" things off the books - spending above income still shows up in the national debt regardless of on-or-off budget. You'll find that Obama racked up debt a lot quicker than the Bush. It's not military spending - it's Government largesse to millions of people. The facts don't lie - spending has skyrocketed under President Obama, and the debt reflects that very fact.
Clinton never had a surplus (we accumulated debt every single year since Ike), and the debt has exploded under President Obama, averaging 2.4 times that of President Bush; President Obama has averaged over 1.1 trillion dollars in new debt every year of his presidency. SOURCE
They were labeled classified. The SOS cannot unilaterally decide to remove the classified label on information. Sorry, she asked for something to happen that was clearly illegal.
Yep. Taking any headings off of something that is supposed to be sent via secured channels, and transmitting it via non-secure methods is totally legit!
What brand do you have? Most likely, the engineering staff resides in China. You'd be surprised how many mundane appliances we use are ODM'd out of China.
I guess his pissing off every voter bloc is the reason he's behind in the delegate count and number of votes cast. I guess he really didn't win in the most Hispanic city in the nation...
Here you go. Links to the actual scanned PDFs themselves, with references to the Dept. of State case number. Hillary asked for classified information to be unmarked and sent over nonsecure e-mail.
According to Hillary's own emails, she was having classified information sent to her, stripped of any markings and then sent over a nonsecure channel. That's what happened per the records released from the State Department. Unless you contend that Hillary just put that in there as a troll for the future?
Here you go. Pretty cut-and-dried illegal action there, requesting that the classified mark be removed and send it non-securely. For anyone else, that's not just a firing offense, but one that will get you prosecuted and probably spending time in prison.
I've yet to see a stream of data be properly decoded when chunks of it is randomly changed. Including encrypted data. It tends to make the encrypted data worthless...
Yes, they used an RNC server FOR POLITICAL PARTY PURPOSES. It's actually against the law to use Government servers for political party purposes - they are to be used for official Government business only. Now, are you asserting that actual Government work took place on that private server?
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Uh, no. The ADDED debt per year is what I'm talking about. Ignore the reported "deficit" numbers, they're cooked big time. Look how much is added to the national debt every year - that will tell you how much excess spending went on. President Bush was terrible, adding $5 trillion to the national debt. President Obama has doubled that, adding nearly $10 TRILLION to the national debt. That's the problem - and the real way to look at spending/revenue. And the last time we had an actual surplus - our debt went down - was back when Eisenhower was in the White House, about 60 years ago.
As far as SSI and intragovernmental debt, per GAAP standards that is debt and must be accounted for. It's owed money - it's not just "disappeared". Yes, the Government can welch on its promised obligations to people, but until it does so - that debt is legitimate and must be accounted for. Even if the CBO and the Government try to claim it isn't. If you have a loan from your 401K (like the Federal Government taking loans from the Social Security fund), then lenders will consider that as debt - which is correct (a financial obligation you have to pay).
The reason I'm focused on debt is because it's an absolute. Games are played with on/off budget deficits, etc (witness those claiming Clinton balanced it, had a surplus). The debt shows the real spending - if you spend more than you bring in, you have a deficit, the debt goes up. So many items are "not counted" in the official deficit that it's crazy. So look at the actual change in debt from year to year, not the reported deficit. That will tell you how much was actually spent relative to revenues...
Actually, SSI and Medicare are not self-funding; they've been running in the red for several years now. They are drawing out of the total Federal revenues. And the funds are not a "lock box" for you - the Supreme Court has ruled there is no right to any Social Security payment. Its funds have been part of the official budget for nearly 50 years, and funds have been used to buy T-bills (loans to the Federal Government) since the beginning, by statute. FICA payments are made to the Federal Government, those funds are loaned to the Federal Government, and the Federal Government has no legal requirement to pay back any of it. Does that mean it's separate and self-funding? In any real sense of those words - not a chance.
Social benefits, welfare, subsidized medical, and food stamps. About $0.70 of every dollar of spending by the Federal Government is spent on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare payments and servicing the national debt. Everything else - defense, IRS, EPA, transportation, education, customs, research, etc - comprises the other $0.30. SOURCE
Take a look at the debt I linked to. You cannot "hide" things off the books - spending above income still shows up in the national debt regardless of on-or-off budget. You'll find that Obama racked up debt a lot quicker than the Bush. It's not military spending - it's Government largesse to millions of people. The facts don't lie - spending has skyrocketed under President Obama, and the debt reflects that very fact.
Clinton never had a surplus (we accumulated debt every single year since Ike), and the debt has exploded under President Obama, averaging 2.4 times that of President Bush; President Obama has averaged over 1.1 trillion dollars in new debt every year of his presidency. SOURCE
well PC's have always been seen as glorified game computers...and Macs for more professiona work...
Well, maybe for gaming AND spelling and grammar checking...
There are laws about how to declassify information and it's not just "because the SOS said so"...
They were labeled classified. The SOS cannot unilaterally decide to remove the classified label on information. Sorry, she asked for something to happen that was clearly illegal.
Yep. Taking any headings off of something that is supposed to be sent via secured channels, and transmitting it via non-secure methods is totally legit!
What brand do you have? Most likely, the engineering staff resides in China. You'd be surprised how many mundane appliances we use are ODM'd out of China.
For patents applied for prior to 1995, it is 17 years from issue. If it was issued in 1999 or later, it's still in force.
I guess his pissing off every voter bloc is the reason he's behind in the delegate count and number of votes cast. I guess he really didn't win in the most Hispanic city in the nation...
Except that she explicitly instructed her staff to wipe the classified markings off and then send through nonsecure channels. But other than requesting a wiping of markings which is in clear violation of he law, and requesting to receive classified data in a nonsecure way also in violation of the law, she's like totally innocent!
Here you go. Links to the actual scanned PDFs themselves, with references to the Dept. of State case number. Hillary asked for classified information to be unmarked and sent over nonsecure e-mail.
According to Hillary's own emails, she was having classified information sent to her, stripped of any markings and then sent over a nonsecure channel. That's what happened per the records released from the State Department. Unless you contend that Hillary just put that in there as a troll for the future?
And that has what to do with Hillary breaking the law with her e-mail server?
Well, maybe they weren't marked classified because she directed people to remove the markings and send them on a non-secure e-mail server.
Here you go. Pretty cut-and-dried illegal action there, requesting that the classified mark be removed and send it non-securely. For anyone else, that's not just a firing offense, but one that will get you prosecuted and probably spending time in prison.
Who made your coffeemaker, your microwave, your TV? Firmware in there...
I've yet to see a stream of data be properly decoded when chunks of it is randomly changed. Including encrypted data. It tends to make the encrypted data worthless...
Congress can't tell the FBI to do squat - that's the Justice Department, part of the Executive branch.
Yes, they used an RNC server FOR POLITICAL PARTY PURPOSES. It's actually against the law to use Government servers for political party purposes - they are to be used for official Government business only. Now, are you asserting that actual Government work took place on that private server?
Oh, the HUMA-nity...
Not to mention there is quite a bit more capacity already existing than what is added. This addition is a few percent of the total out there... Also interesting to see natural gas lumped in with solar and wind...