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@ Final-Fan

Firstly, the analogy with the Twinkie eating woman was very appropriate. You appear to sell yourself as some kind of intellectual yet there is rarely a sign of any mental rigor behind your arguments. Was the analogy a bit on the colorful side? Sure, but it was also fitting. You seem to fly by the seat of your pants, flailing wildly hoping something hits the target. And now I have the joy of waiting for your math to prove that liberals have no real interest in big government. In fact they are really libertarian in their fiscal responsibility (somebody please notify the Democratic party). In any event, take it more as a challenge than an insult.

While I care little either way, it is amusing to see how quickly you shifted to “which party is responsible for the debt.” My joiner was to only point out how misleading the basis for your correlation was. I presume you concede that point since you are going through your mathematical gymnastics in hopes of arriving to a similar corollary by another means. I thought your primary purpose was to defend tax increases? Instead you took a decidedly political turn.

As far as WWII is concerned, of course I am full support of the investment required to achieve a military victory against fascism. When I said drop defense spending, I meant to drop it from all years. Was Cold War spending so much more discretionary than WWII? (some would claim the former was a drawn out continuation of the latter) You might be careful about what you cherry pick.