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Related: About this forumThe conservative rebuttal to the Rex Nutting article
I sent the article to a RWer I know, and he sent me back something from the American Enterprise Institute saying that Nutting only came to this conclusion because he fudged the numbers and shifted things around. Has anyone else seen this, and is there a rebuttal to the rebuttal?
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)They contort the information in their minds until it fits their conception of reality.
Nothing you put forth will change their mindset.
emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)As all other sources are liberal and lie all the time.
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)Last edited Fri May 25, 2012, 01:43 PM - Edit history (1)
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Now I when you work with percentages of variable numbers, there's a myriad of tricks that can be used to support or oppose any issue being discussed. Remember that its is a FACT the poor man with 1c increases his wealth by 100% if he just finds another penny and he/she has a higher rate of income growth that someone earning 100k a year and got a $1k raise to his/her monthly salary, so the question must be asked, percentage of what? Also what is the percentage to GDP cos a 7 figure earner spending $10k /month is not the same as 90k earner spending the same. You have to ignore a lot of factors for the article to work cos democrats actually believe in govt role through spending to stimulate and maintain a steady growth of the economy as opposed to belief in tax cuts and war spending as a means of doing the same
And seeing as Obama voted for Bush war spending, bank bailouts and such, I don't see why he should be absolved of those spending since he supported it by his yea votes. This is one time that perception is indeed reality.
Dokkie
(1,688 posts)can link to the rebuttal of the original articles.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)I didn't think it would be appropriate to link to a place like the AEI, so I refrained at first.