DAR
No, this is a terrible distortion you love to repeat. The actual reason, with regard to the budget, is given on their FAQ page:

“How accurate are CBO’s budget projections?

By statute, CBO’s baseline projections must estimate the future paths of federal spending and revenues under current law and policies. The baseline is therefore not intended to be a prediction of future budgetary outcomes; instead, it is meant to serve as a neutral benchmark that lawmakers can use to measure the effects of proposed changes to spending and taxes. So for that reason and others, actual budgetary outcomes are almost certain to differ from CBO’s baseline projections.”

This makes perfect sense.

Bigd: COngress leaves things out to get the numbers they want.”>>

DAR
Complete rubbish. The CBO has to do it’s calculations based upon the law in question.

And regarding their economic forecasting accuracy, they have:

“How accurate are CBO’s economic forecasts?

CBO regularly evaluates the accuracy of its economic forecasts and publishes the track record. Those evaluations help guide the agency’s efforts to improve its forecasts and help Members of Congress and others in their use of CBO’s estimates. Historically, the accuracy of CBO’s two-year forecasts and five-year projections has been very similar to the accuracy of those by the Blue Chip consensus (an average of private-sector forecasters) and the Administration.”
–ibid

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DAR
Where on earth did you get this (quite ridiculous) idea (distortion) from?

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“The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government. It is a government agency that provides economic data to Congress.[1] The CBO was created as an independent nonpartisan agency by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.”

Adam told me that I knew it was true I made it with some kind of help. I merely pointed out that I did not.

If you want to be fair though, divide the work year into the actual time in school the grant paid for. Use the actual hours and extrapolate to a whole year.

DAR
In no sense is the claim in question true unless you stack the deck and invent an uneven timeline:

“I got paid less than your government grants for college…”

You got paid more unless you compare four years to one, then you got paid less. And this kind of blatant, ridiculous trick is useful how?

You could always compare minutes to years and make it even look better. Is this how republicans do their budgets? Why yes, I think it is.

Here is an example of what I am talking about:
Scott Veerkamp / Predatory Lending (Franklin Township School Board Member.)

Please review this information from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley regarding deceptive lending practices:
“Steering payments were made to brokers who enticed unsuspecting homeowners into deceptive and expensive mortgages. These secret bonus payments, often called Yield Spread Premiums, turned home mortgages into a SCAM.”

The Center for Responsible Lending says YSP “steals equity from struggling families.”
1. Scott collected nearly $10,000 on two separate mortgages using YSP and junk fees. 2. This is an average of $5,000 per loan. 3. The median value of the properties was $135,000. 4. Clearly, this type of lending represents a major ripoff for consumers.

http://merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=A09C6A80-537A-4EB1-83C5-31925F046B6F

I did not make it up. Learn what you are talking about.

When I cite CBO reports they contain sometimes pages of sources and info on how they arrive at their results. It has nothing to do with what Congress gives or doesn’t give them. You have just made that up completely and you know it.

You are, unfortunately, unable to see this or accept this even though it is absolutely correct.

If I ran the budget then it would be balanced.

It is not as simple as a family budget because in a family budget family members do not keep adding pork and they do not expect others to pay for it. Family budgets would be really bad if we added pork and spent someone else’s money.

In Congress they are not spending their money, they are spending the money of the taxpayer. They add pork and they keep spending because they do not care. It is not their money.

You complain about the wars and other things but you think it was great that Obama signed legislation with more than 10,000 items of pork in them.

I would veto all of them.