I am arguing with the founder of a guy who is spending his own fortune to put giant billboards that spread misinformation in our town.
The exchange is below... I want to reply but hit him with real information...not the phony info. he is pulling from Glenn Beck.
I know that many times these are exercises in futility, but every so often, a kernel of truth is placed. How do I know? Because I used to be the right-wing Bush zealot five years ago. Someone I got into an argument with took the time with me, so maybe, just maybe...
Here was my post on his website:
While the "deficit hawks" within the Republican Party are all up in arms(!) about proposed spending on healthcare, education, energy, etc. -- that is to say the agenda Barack Obama ran and won on in 2008 -- this platform makes up about 3 cents out of every dollar in deficit spending.
But where did all that other deficit come from, the other 97 cents? Much of it came from none other than George W. Bush, supported by those very same Republicans who now purport to dislike the deficit.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
He hit me with some insults, and I responded that he wasn't able to argue a single point. I also threw in that he probably thought Glenn Beck was a thoughtful intellectual.
His response:
Dude - i don't know where to begin. I apologize for the names as they get you nowhere - sincerely. You are so far off base on every statement you made though. By 2020 100% of axes collected will go to pay for Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and interest on the debt. How is Bush responsible for that? The problem is you have to go back decades and study history to find out why we are where we are. am no fan og George Bush and left the Republican party while he was president. Out long term unfunded liabilities are 130 trillion dollars and do you know the entire wealth of our country? 50 trillion! Make sense? Look at the entitlements that the government has taken over and every one of them is a case study in mismanagement and certain bankruptcy. And you want to give them the best health care system in the world! 52% of all medical discoveries come from where - the US. You are clamping down the free market and killing the system that improves the lives of everyone in the world. You have no problem with 2500 pages? No problem that it was voted on 24 hours after completed? No problem that it was not written by Congress? No problem that the CBO says it cannot even calculate the new govt jobs and offices created? No problem that Omama said the negotiations would be on span and it turned inot back room deals, lies and corruption. No problem that America did not want this? No problem that Nancy Pelosi said we have to pass the bill to see what is in it? No problem that the CBO already has corrected the cost projections? Every view your party hold is idiotic and bent on bringing down this country. I don't know how you do not see it, but you may not have much of a country left. An yes Glenn Beck is a brilliant man. You may want to try watching him instead of swallowing the lies you are being fed by a machine that has no answer for him. Take the red pill Neo!
I do want to respond, but want to ask for help from my brilliant Kossacks first. Thanks