Yet, the numbers put in front of us through thisbudgetproposal do not lie -- thisbudget takes us off that path and puts us into new and dangerous territory.
The utter predictability of it all is becoming comical, so comical in fact that the American Petroleum Institute (API) responded to thisbudgetproposal filled with stale, debunked and retreaded energy-related proposals by retreading the same statement it had issued in response to the proposed budget submitted by President Obama last year.
Thisbudgetproposal aims to control Social Security expenditures by calculating cost of living adjustments (COLA) in a way that proponents argue is a more accurate reflection of how prices for consumer goods fluctuate.