If only facts could penetrate through the GOP's idiocy.

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/10-inconvenient-truths-about-debt-ceiling

 

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http://blog.heritage.org/2011/05/13/liberal-think-tank-fails-statistics/

Not listening!!

 

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Worst facestab eva... Talk about failing at Stats...


wow...

 

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Holy stupid blog batman.

 

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Why? Explain.

 

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The original chart is specifically meant to highlight recent changes in policy and their impact on the debt. His criticism of the original chart failed to address that and made a claim about mathematical reason. The mathematical reason is change, change being what a lot of math is about.


He then uses SS and Medicare which are both funded differently and have a far different impact on the debt. There is a mathematical reason to not use these two programs the way he did.


That is as far as I got before I realized that this is just another example of well funded stupid.


As far as I am concerned he failed to make a legitimate argument against the original chart while pushing a horribly flawed argument.


He also said something stupid about tax revenue which requires you to assume that lower tax rates don't have an impact on debt. Dumb dumb dumb.

 

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I shall actually score that SoO as a (rare) actual attempt on your part to deliver a fact-based refutation of what the blog said.

(The fruit hangs so low in that post that it's pretty easy, however. Note I'm not even going to try to troll you).

I agree with one of your points. And a portion of the other. (The partiality of which doesn't make his blog post any more accurate).

 

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I thought the bloggers main point seemed solid. You could just as easily make a chart showing health care expenditures, automatic increases in spending, discretionary spending or whatever. The chart shows one impact and blames the recession on that impact, but it does nothing to show other costs that have gone up recently that impact the deficit.

The chart isn't about "recent expenditures." It's just a politically motivated effort to blame bush for the deficit.

 

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Ah, this old argument.


If I am going into debt because I earn $3k a month but I spend $4k a month, I have two choices:

I can try to force my employer to pay me more and/or seek another job.

OR

I can reduce my spending.


If I go to a financial counselor, they will tell me to cut my expenses.

They will tell me it's not my employer's fault for not paying me enough.

They will tell me that it's my fault for living beyond my means.

 

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