Three Charts To Email To Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law

[FourScore]

Sun Aug 28, 2011 at 01:00 PM PDT
Three Charts To Email To Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
by davej

Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "Stimulus" just made things worse. Solution: Here are three "reality-based" charts to send to him. These charts show what actually happened.

Spending


Government spending increased dramatically under Bush. It has not increased much under Obama. Note that this chart does not reflect any spending cuts resulting from deficit-cutting deals.

Deficits


SNIP

The Stimulus and Jobs



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[tblue]

1. He doesn't read. Only listens to Rush.

Has collected Charity Care (for hospital bills) from his state tho. It's very hard to stomach.

How did you know I have a Right-Wing Brother-In-Law?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Doesn't everyone?

Well, my wife doesn't, come to think of it. I don't have a brother, but he would probably be a RW asshole if I did. Nature seems to demand it.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Thanks. I just sent them to My Favorite Wingnut

with the caption

"Reality's just such a bitch…"

[HughBeaumont]

4. Also, jobs numbers aren't what they should be due to Fascist Gov fire-a-thons/department closings.

Over 300,000 state/local jobs lost in a 10 month period.

Ask said brother "what happened in November 2010"??

What's weird is that the "bathtub drowning" is happening under a "Democratic" presidency. Or not so weird.

[tavalon]

5. Three problems with emailing these to your right wing brother in law

He's stupid, he's stupid, he's stupid. And fourth, and probably most important his eyes glaze when charts are pulled out.

[jimlup]

6. kick and rec

for later reference. Thanks for the graphs - can you read the fine print - sources? CBO?

[provis99]

7. my right-wing relatives are a lost cause.

I'm just working on getting them to not vote.