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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwo TRUTHS that Democrats must push hard on MSM now.
NObody is correcting the false frame out there.
1. Democrats have ALREADY compromised to the bone.
2. The debt has ALREADY been cut in half under Obama.
Repeat and repeat and repeat,
Cleita
(75,480 posts)to the corporate biased media, but I agree with you in principle.
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)Plenty of Democrats appear on MSM.
The number one message should include those two truths.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)often not asked back if they are too truthful.
duhneece
(4,115 posts)I still don't understand the difference good enough to explain it...but which has been cut in half, the debt or deficit? What's the correct answer, anyone? With reliable source, of course!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)inconvenient facts and truths being discussed. I watch it all the time and I yell at the TV as to why didn't they question a statement made more than they do.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)Debt is the total owed, deficit or surplus is the annual difference between revenue and spending.
It is the deficit that has been cut in half.
Source is my very own brain.
duhneece
(4,115 posts)I don't know if it's the Multiple Sclerosis I was diagnosed with 6 months ago or the med's they gave me for Trigeminal Neuralgia (or Trigenital thing, as my partner calls it!)...but I find myself wanting to introduce myself to people as "I am Duhneece; I'm develpmentally challenged!
Thank you for clearing up the difference...
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,378 posts)I believe the deficit has been cut in half, not the debt.
Thanks for the thread, grasswire.
Wounded Bear
(58,675 posts)The deficit has been cut in half. Not the debt.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)The Deficit and the Debt are two entirely different things..
grantcart
(53,061 posts)what are Republicans always telling folks who can't make ends meet?
get a second job to increase revenue