Drawn by Barry Blitt and published as satire to "show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is," every aspect of the work perfectly captures the Obama legacy.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Prescient Satire
Drawn by Barry Blitt and published as satire to "show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is," every aspect of the work perfectly captures the Obama legacy.
Friday, December 18, 2015
And Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Those Who Debt Against Us*
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.~T.H. HuxleyOverheard at Lem's:
Rhythm and Balls said...
Democrats almost consistently bring debt down. Republicans ever since Reagan almost consistently raise it.
December 18, 2015 at 8:53 PMAs proof, the author linked the following chart:
So far, so good. But I wondered why the Obama years were so truncated and so I went looking for more recent data:
I will leave it to you geniuses to explain away the "hockey stick."
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[Added, 6 PM PST, December 19, 2015]:
And yet, she will become POTUS because Americans know that her lies are not as dangerous as the lies that Republicans can't stop telling themselves. See Chickie's new, selective disregard for facts in a later post comparing 1990 to 1941 if you want to see evidence of that.
Apparently, the author misunderstood what I did with the charts. I used the second chart to show the astonishing growth in debt under the Obama Administration. I knew that it had spiked, and had approached FDR levels (and yet, we never saw FDR-like performance, did we?).
It seemed rather obvious to me that the data presented in the second chart augments the data in the first one; it doesn't supplant the first one. Plotted together, the deficits run by FDR and by Obama would look like sharp spikes at both ends of a hypothetical chart spanning the years 1932 to 2015.* Such a chart would still undermined the author's hypothesis that "Democrats almost consistently bring debt down. Republicans ever since Reagan almost consistently raise it."
Quarrel Est Demonstandum
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