-Caveat Lector- One of those emails I received that has "slipped through the cracks" was one I received a couple of months ago and kept meaning to send out with a commentary but never got around to it and now can't find it. Perhaps someone can verify exact details. The gist of the story is that Barrons financial magazine, I believe, was quoted as publishing the Federal deficit for each of the last two years and the cumulative annual Federal deficit increased by something on the order of $300 billion I believe. What is the point? The much ballyhooed 1999 "Federal Budget Surplus" is a fraud perpetrated by a change in accounting procedures completely unreported in the mainstream media whereby all of a sudden without any public indication of what was happening, the money that normally goes into social security was reallocated as part of the federal budget. Then the actual annual deficit was subtracted from this amount and the balance was renamed the "budget surplus" and all this talk about how it should be spent "to save social security", etc., is a big con job because we are talking about an amount of money in fact equal to what was previously allocated to social security, LESS the actual last annual DEFICIT in the Federal budget. Now if my understanding is correct here, wouldn't this be quite a scandal with the media complicit in this coverup of the truth? That is: There is no budget surplus, only a change in accounting and nominclature to fool the people! wouldn't any accounting firm be censured and any company fined for using such deception in fiscal reporting? Now they are talking about "oh well , looks like we will have to use some of this budget surplus to pay for the war in Kosovo". This is in reality then the money that under last year's accounting vocabulary was the normal deposit to the social security program being used instead to fight a war. What do you think the vote would have been if people were asked, "shall we take money from the social security budget and use it to bomb a bunch of folks in Europe?" This is such a outright fraud on the American people that it amazes me almost as much as the history behind how the most valuable plant in human history, the hemp plant, has been fraudulently outlawed as marijuana, expunged from the historical record, and the government and media are still complicit in this parallel historical fraud on the American people and Congress. (see http://www.jackherer.com) I hope that my posting this poor excuse for the original email with the exact source of the deficit numbers will at least suffice to inspire someone to find the proper numbers and sources to verify this easy to confirm or refute thesis that I have faithfully depicted above, i.e., The "Federal Budget Surplus" is a Fraud DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
