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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Just what is it that makes your sources any more credible then Alan's or anyone else's??? Right wing and left wing spread the propaganda and bs at the same rate!!!!!

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Dave, I'm always open to debate and considering other opinions as well as credible sources for accurate info (heck, you and I have been doing this for a decade or so and neither has quit yet#). But since you asked the above question I'll respond as "gently" as I can. I thought I did a reasonable job enumerating my sources, which those who are idealogues will scream "FOX NEWS blah blah" or whatever to attempt to discredit. That's not serious debate, nevermind the inaccuracy. To the claim that Ryan's budget "cuts" Medicare, I pointed out that if it's read in it's real form, there is no cut, just a lesser rate of growth than letting it run uncontrolled as is built in. That's not opinion, it's reality.

As to the often floated argument that the Bush era tax cuts "cost the economy", all one has to do is look at IRS data from their website to see that revenues did in fact increase after the cuts. Not opinion, again, fact from the governments own data. Statements to the contrary are what are not factual, intended or not, misinformation is harmful.

I could go on but that would be even more boring than this already is. I wish you were correct about much of the populace being well informed. But I think that the low voter participation that you rightly point out is an indicator of the opposite. Jim's comments about "undecideds" is reflective too. There are a lot of folks who just don't pay attention until the last couple weeks of a cycle. They vote on emotion not intellect. That's neither right nor wrong as far as a method of decision, it just is human nature for some. Otherwise...................hope and change as a philosophy wouldn't float (although there is a scatalogical reference I could make that would contradict myself )