Re: Rules 'hiding' trillions in debt

Jean Smith wrote:

Matthew Scott <scottm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I don't understand your question. Does it have something to do with government accounting methods?

I'm drawing a conclusion, not asking a question. You've been conditioned by Jerry. There a way to tell statements from questions, but perhaps you haven't reached that chapter. Yours is just another data point in the economics as an illusion.

I would suggest only that if you're going to make nonsensical statements that have nothing to do with the topic under discussion, you make them in a new thread rather than piggy-backing on an unrelated comment.

Who's Jerry? What is "economics as an illusion"?
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