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Originally Posted by Mutt
thanks, good explanation  |
The great irony and great tragedy of the last 3 decades is that the american people have been too dumb and too frightened to do 5th grade math.
We let the republicans lie to us about lowering taxes without ever doing the arithmetic.
The media is partly to blame, but we americans were ultimately responsible, we will pay the bills, not the media corporations or the retired and dead politicians.
We did this to ourselves.
I can't blame the republicans - it's their mandate to lie to us. Same with the democrats. We, the people, mandated that they lie.