Tom Toles Rant: Doesn't add up edition

[n2doc]

I think I'm seeing a large overlap between people who don't accept evolution, people who don't accept climate science and also the supposedly deficit-obsessed Tea Party. Correct me if I am wrong here. I attribute this to a certain underdeveloped aptitude in processing data. Case in point: The Big Deficit Menace. If people were serious about this topic and took any pains to understand it, the conversation would be all about the two important aspects of the problem: Medicare and tax increases. Any conversation that isn't about these two things isn't about fixing The Big Deficit Menace, and anyone who pretends otherwise is either pretending or afflicted with the aforementioned data-processing deficiency.

Irony of ironies: People who don't believe in evolution are the most avid advocates for Social Darwinism. Their real concern with The Big Deficit Menace is the galling idea that some funds are making their way to the Undeserving. This is also their problem with health-care reform. Their solution to health care is that if you happen to be both sick and Undeserving, you should just go off somewhere and...well, just go off somewhere where we won't see. Why do I say that? Because I've been following political debates for a while now. Go ahead, argue with me if you want.

So while there is no such thing as evolution, to the victors go the spoils, and cut loose the Undeserving. This also seems to be the position of those who want to get religion back into politics. --Tom Toles
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/2011/02/friday_rant_doesnt_add_up.html#more

[damntexdem]

1. No, not Medicare and tax increases, rather . . .

healthcare costs and tax cuts.