Short Lesson on Spending

[Curmudgeoness]

3. This is true, but the point of that circulating email

is to explain where the US debt is right now and to try to make it relate to something people can grasp. At first glance, it is very effective, and to just say it is apples and oranges isn't going to be an argument that many will understand. Believe me, I have already tried that. We have to frame this as something as simple as what they have put out there. This is one of the biggest problems that we Democrats have---we take the conversation to an intellectual level, while the Repugs are putting out simple to understand nonsense.