Suddenly the sophist is specific? I'll play. Your original post;
A 15% drop in family income can almost always be dealt with by belt-tightening. A 50% drop is a catastrophe...and that's what will happen to some people as the state cuts spending.
Then you went on some bizarre tangent with a made up scenerio magically adding 15 + x = 50 in post #6 for the purpose of saying;
15%=50% & 50%=catastrophe, therefore 15%=catastrophe.
If you can't read or follow this line of logic, that is because it was insipid nonsense that anyone on FR would disagree with. God bless em.
Now do you see why the multitude of posters would dare counter such brilliance?