<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jul 18, 2016, at 9:56 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Republican Bush Junior gave Democrat Obama a 1.4 TRILLION dollar budget deficit, so far Obama has reduced the deficit to 492 billion.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">..</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John K Clark</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Of those two, I choose… none of the above. Neither party has demonstrated responsibility with budgets, both major parties are spending way beyond their means. Throw them out. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I live in a free state, so I can vote for whoever I think is best.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><br><style><!--
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--></style><div>There's the issue when talking about these deficit or surplus numbers of how seriously to take them given how much is not included. And the non-included is actually estimated to be quite large -- in the deficit direction. In other words, not a mere accounting error.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book, "The Late Mr. Gurlitt," at:</span></div><a dir="ltr" href="http://mybook.to/Gurlitt" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://mybook.to/Gurlitt</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>