Missed my Birthday

I understand that some people missed my 50th.   Attached is the invite if you didn't receive one- My apologies.  The party is going to be held 303 days ago.  

shake, shake, shake

Want to save a few million premature deaths each year? Regulate salt, said researchers at the World Nutrition Rio2012 meeting held here last week.

A little salt won't hurt ya!
http://www.livescience.com/20179-salt-leading-killer-worldwide.html

Arizona Sunset

Color flow

Who dug the hole?

As a long-time government guy I see lots of budget projections, plans, and estimates.  People generally want to show there plan as the best and come up with "interesting" ways to show there plan.  The only solution is to come up with your own measure of what matters and begin comparing from there.   This chart goes right to what matters.   Are we ahead (surplus) or behind (deficit) and what caused what.  Also this uses real numbers and not some projection of the future which is inaccurate at best.   Where did the debt come from?  See below for the Bush league solution.