stevo

Well buddy, my day job is an economist and I can take the same numbers from the US Treasury, Office of Tax analysis, do my own impartial, un-biased (that is how we are trained) analysis and come up with roughly the same figures. Numbers don't lie, people do.

Maybe you can't see the facts because you are too blinded by your partisanship to notice the truth when it is presented to you.

And your statement about AEI being at the center of the "conservative media machine" is flippin' hilarious. What machine would you be talking about? Not CNN, CNBC, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Boston Globe, or the NY Times of course. mmm, perhaps Fox News? Well then, why hasn't Fox News broke a story about this if AEI is at the center of the "conservative media machine"? And being critical of your sources doesn't mean dismissing them strait-off because of who they are....yes I'm talking to you, roach.

And another thing. Based on your posts, revealing that you are an historian only serves to strengthen my arguement that the average historian is liberal and anti-war. I said most historians are self-proclaimed as such, just as you are.

I never said I dismiss history because it has a political bias, I only keep that in mind when studying it and try to know something about the historian presenting it. You assume I'm "stuck in the former" based on one statement about historians. And why are we polling historians now about bush and his policies? Wouldn't it make more sense to let history unfold before we ask historians what they think about it?

Well peeps, I'd love to get back to this post (and forum) later today or tomorrow, but I'll be on the road a lot and pretty busy until the holidays are over, but I'll get back on here as soon as I can, probably once the holidays are over. I might be able to fit in a post or two, but I'm not sure. So have a merry christmas, roach (and everyone else), and a happy new year.