I need a liberal or dem's take on this

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Spence, you need to learn to quit when you are behind.

Spence, you cannot win. I'm holding all the cards.

Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I'm not wrong, I'm just looking at the chart a different way.





I'm pretty sure he just looks at the cards a different way

you could be holding all ACES and he'd tell you that's not how he sees it and walk away with your money grinning while you were sitting there trying to figure out how he came to that conclusion...sometimes the mistake is ever sitting down at the table in the first place....

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
I'm not wrong, I'm just looking at the chart a different way.





I'm pretty sure he just looks at the cards a different way

you could be holding all ACES and he'd tell you that's not how he sees it and walk away with your money grinning while you were sitting there trying to figure out how he came to that conclusion...sometimes the mistake is ever sitting down at the table in the first place....

OK, so now, with your back completely against the wall, when you have been mathematically proven to be wrong, you insult me. It's not that you are wrong, or that Obama is incompetent. it's that I'm not smart enough to sit at the table.

Spence, I could lose an argument supporting slavery before I can lose this argument with you. When I say I have all the cards, it's a result of the fact that I consider all the facts. You dismiss everything which doesn't support your pre-determined (determined for you by the White House) opinion.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

OK, so now, with your back completely against the wall, when you have been mathematically proven to be wrong, you insult me. It's not that you are wrong, or that Obama is incompetent. it's that I'm not smart enough to sit at the table.

Huh? I think you're misreading ScottW's post.

Spence, I could lose an argument supporting slavery before I can lose this argument with you. When I say I have all the cards, it's a result of the fact that I consider all the facts. You dismiss everything which doesn't support your pre-determined (determined for you by the White House) opinion.

There are two ways to interpret one element of the data in the chart. That I jumped to one over the other has for some reason consumed you...so much so that you're missing the point.

The cartoon is intentionally misleading.

-spence

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Huh? I think you're misreading ScottW's post.


There are two ways to interpret one element of the data in the chart. That I jumped to one over the other has for some reason consumed you...so much so that you're missing the point.

The cartoon is intentionally misleading.

-spence

"Huh? I think you're misreading ScottW's post. "

Guilty as charged.

"There are two ways to interpret one element of the data in the chart. "

The one way that anyone who understands numbers would interpret it, is to say spending is 40% more than it used to be. You tried to use your interpretation, whatever it was, to refute that. You were wrong.