The debt burden would increase at the same time the government's ability to pay was declining.
The most obvious thing wrong with this argument is that no climate scientist thinks global warming means temperatures will always increase at the same rate.
"The pace and quantum of regulatory reform continues to increase at the same time as the global economy appears to be losing momentum in its recovery," Flint said.
Ideally, the charges for Medicare drug coverage should increase at the same rate as Social Security or slow-moving consumer price indexes.
Some workers in the interior are seeing wages increase at the same rates as those on the coast, or at even higher rates.
The company also said profit rose 11percentt in the first half and would increase at the same rate in the second, down from 15percentt for all of 2001.
"Computer speed is likely to increase at the same rate in coming years, but people and companies are likely to buy fewer computers," Mr. Lewis said, explaining that the private sector no longer needs so much additional speed.
And of course, casting the biggest shadow of all, like some epic scarecrow, is Keith Richards, a man whose glamour and charisma increase at the same rate as the wrinkles on that beautiful Red Indian face.
"Oil demand around the world continues to increase at the same time we are experiencing a supply disruption in Libya as well as a reduction of supplies from the Gulf of Mexico".
"To impose a significant tax increase at the same time as you're cutting services is a dangerous formula, but I think it's important that we not become partisan at a time like this: it's important that we not be in denial," he warns, on a roll now.
"Over the last 10 years the average annual increase for private schools has been 5.5percentt, and as cost-drivers continue to increase at the same rate that we've seen over the last several years, it's very likely that tuition increases will also continue to rise by the same approximate rate," said Tony Pals, the college association spokesman.
