Arguably. You can produce charts that argue the opposite.Schneibster wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:
Once again - they made statements, none of which are identified or shown to be lies. What you're doing, as usual, is just taking a political opinion or opinion on economics that you disagree with and which you think is wrong, and saying that because you think it's wrong it's a lie.What happened that brought about the massive budget deficits was off-budget Iraq and the unfunded Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit and the unfunded Bush tax cuts, and I can produce charts that prove it.Toomey on Tuesday: “What happened that brought about the massive budget deficits and the mounting debt that caused this committee to come into being, was, fundamentally, a spending spree. Remember, it’s been this sequence of stimulus bills, and bailouts, and government takeovers—a huge surge in discretionary spending.”
Toomey doesn't think your charts are correct.Schneibster wrote: That, right there, is Toomey lying.
Your source ain't required dogma. People who hold the opposite view aren't lying, and your source is not unnaissailable, in arguable or unfalsifiable. He thinks you're wrong. You think he's wrong. Have at it.Schneibster wrote:
No questions, no doubts, no horseshit, and the only reason it works is because he's talking to the half that are below IQ 100 and won't ever bother to look it up.
That's not lying, dude. That's "holding a different opinion." And, holding a different opinion, even as a minority of one, even against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, is not a lie.