O'Donnel had some comments on budget.

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It was a real interesting conversation. To understand it easiest, think of a big area, then in that area is a box, that box is the system, then make your discussions of what should be done based on the rules of that system.

What they said made sense, within the confines of a system, that system has a thoughts on rules they like or do not want to change, so to find a way to balance budget, within that rule set they bring up options and ideas. In the same way, they use the comment balance also within that system, so for them 'balance' becomes about balancing the budget.



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Basically they make an argument within the box on the lower right corner, that corner has some basic thoughts on how the system 'should be' then from that concept, rules occur that try to solve a problem within that system.

My comment is not about how to balance a budget, but how do they defend the concepts of limitations like concepts of what is 'earned wealth' and issues of distribution, and even validity of generational debt, or generational wealth. The concept of balanced budget must first be able to defend the concepts of the system, those arguments are not made on tv.

No mater if you go left or right in the little box, you would still be out of balance by the limitations they set on themselves by the bounds of the system. I do however agree with many of the needs like national security, including the needs of social security.

An example is the defense issue, for some people cutting defense was outside of the box of what is possible, but that box expanded to include that concept after awhile. Why did it expand, because of need, did the argument change?

The discussion is the same one of levels, if you go back more layers, you can actually see the difference, they make the discussion with the basic premise that consolidations of wealth are acceptable, and work from that postulation, how would you defend that argument? And if you can not, then things like debt that moves money as interest payments to those with assets could easily be challenged. Since much of the interest paid does not just go to foreign countries but global institutions.


And I do think the comments made on the show were interesting. I also liked his agreement of the compliment of Britney, I also agree that she is thoughtful with concepts of trying to help society in her art form.

Side note, I am aware you already know this :)