Reagan's fallacy about Families and the Federal government.

I would like to remind Democrats that the debates really helped Reagan in 1980 and Mitt waits with bated breath to repeat the feat.

In the debate Reagan told how families sit around the kitchen table, make hard choices and balance their budgets. Reagan delivered his lines perfectly. He raised his voice and said if families can balance their budgets then so SHOULD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

He was cheered.

This line is a fallacy known as a straw-man argument. Clearly the government isn't the same as a family. In fact federal spending makes it much easier for families to balance their budgets. When the government supports college funding, the family doesn't have to pay as much. The biggest fact of the Reagan presidency is that families went into much greater debt as a result of his presidency. Worse, the Federal deficit nearly tripled. His whole spiel was a lie! The economy improved a lot, but it was all on credit. We're still paying for it.

This time, families are too in debt. They can't help the economy. And if Mitt drives us into another depression, you can kiss your assets good-bye.