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Visualizing the National Debt

Posted in Economics, tagged , , , , , on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

BillShrink has an interesting and informative visualization of the National Debt (i.e. Obama’s credit card in our names).  Click on the image to see it in a larger format over at BillShrink:

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Political Skepticism

Posted in Skepticism, tagged on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I found a short post over at Skepticblog in which Michael Shermer simply attempts to demonstrate that the number 3.8 trillion is an almost inconceivably large number.  You have probably already recognized that particular number as the size, in dollars, of President Obama’s proposed budget.  Not surprisingly, that did not go unnoticed among the respondents [...]

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Obama’s phony budget freeze

Posted in Dishonest Politicians, tagged , , , , on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Matthias Shapiro, the guy behind Political Math, has produced another short but illuminating video in which he discusses President Obama’s announced budget freeze.  Like his other visualizations, which include the Obama Budget Cuts Visualization and The National Debt Road Trip, this one cuts through the chaff and puts things in perspective.  In short, the freeze is a joke.
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We Need a New Congressional Agency

Posted in Socialist Politicians, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I never thought that I would utter these words, but we need a new congressional agency.  This new agency, the Congressional Constitution Office, or CCO, would be modeled after the independent Congressional Budget Office.
The Congressional Budget Office has been in the news recently for reporting higher costs for some proposed legislation than Democrat supporters of [...]

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