AMG user “Watcher,” already known for making the discredited-everywhere-but-AMG assertion that the Affordable Care Act taxes regular people on the sale of their homes, now decides to opine about America’s budget challenges using terribly wrong numbers he found somewhere in the bowels of the conservative echo-net:
In this thread he writes:
(CNSNews.com) – Imagine that you had an average monthly income of about $170 balanced against average monthly expenses of about $940–and that you were more than $14,000 in debt. Then imagine that as of today, you had only $58.60 in cash left in your bank account and $130.50 left on your line of credit. Now multiply these numbers by 1 billion and you will have the up-to-date financial situation of the U.S. government.
You don’t have to go past the first two numbers, which imply an income to expense ratio for the Federal government of about 1:5, to see that this little bit of folksy math just doesn’t make sense.
In reality our federal government income to expense ratio for 2010 was more like 2:3. That number isn’t a secret or anything.
Why must AMGers lie about this? A two to three ratio is still going to piss everyone off more than enough. Why exaggerate the problem 10x (50% expenses over income versus 500%) unless you are just a compulsive liar?
And does Watcher, or anyone else, fact check anything? No one has corrected this obvious error. Does no one on AMG even have a tiny bit of actual knowledge about how our government funds itself? They all like to pretend they are experts.
Liberals are banned pretty much on a weekly basis, but someone like Watcher starts all sorts of threads grounded in easily disproven factual premises and doesn’t even get a little editor’s note asking him to kindly refrain from broadcasting bullshit. I have a feeling if someone posted numbers about LePage’s budget that were off by 10x it would be deleted before Naran could even write a snappy comeback pulled off a shelf labelled “1958.”
These are all rhetorical questions, by the way, because most of us already know the answers to all of them.
Another liberal slanted demand! By demanding facts you give away your blind bias towards reality instead of “life, the way it should be”.
Only by allowing the right to present the world in a way that does not demand facts can the true fallacy of the progressive platform be made clear.
You have to admit, if everything the right said about the progressive outlook were true, it would justify any steps needed to defend this country……………….therefore since the right is willing to take any steps necessary…………..everything they are saying must be true.