Well, Dwight, there is a big difference between Paul Ryan and a client....I don’t have clients running against each other for a seat at my desk.
So that means you should expect
less? :shock:
You may have noticed that over the years there has been a significant dearth of “real” numbers presented in campaigns.
So when asked for them we should expect to get blown off with “half truths, misleading statements and outright bull**** by candidates for elected office”?
Candidates love to spout numbers but they generally mean nothing. We had all kinds of numbers presented for health care and even now, 3 years after it passed, we still don’t have all the numbers and those that we do have are a long, long way from what was presented.
Starting point, ballparks. There are unknown but at least getting the assumptions out there so they can be discussed, rather these decisions being made on emotional rants, who was diddling their maid, who loves Jesus/babies/apple pie more, and other assorted crap.
If a campaigner gives specific numbers there is going to be an ad 2 years from now showing how those numbers were wrong. No sane candidate gives hard numbers.
“This is what I propose we do, this is how that works.” Even vaguely ballpark, because yeah gathering all the. Right now their claims simply
don’t make a lick of sense, without a serious shift of tax load percentages towards the middle class or some other rather sizable thing they are leaving out. It has con game written all over it.
<snip your example of exactly why numbers
are important>
Lets say that someone wants to play numbers con artist and tries to mess with them later? *shrug* The solution to someone lying about something isn’ t to stop talking about the whole subject, just like the solution to someone saying something stupid isn’t to ban that speech. This is about growing the fck up as a society, and we don’t do that by giving a pass this sort of crap. Information
void is NOT the answer. Exactly BECAUSE of that article you linked.
P.S. I’ve been on a ‘numbers kick’ for several decades. But then I’m pro-Enlightenment. Maybe that is where the “style” difference comes in, because more and more the GOP
isn’t. Go feudal dark ages! :elephantf