Good article today

that says a lot about truth vs perception when dealing with the deficit, as the Pubs threaten to shut down the gov't over the debt limit.

 Hal Varian, the chief economist of Google, offered to run a Google Consumer Survey — a service the company normally sells to market researchers — on the question of. 'has the deficit has gone up or down since January 2010'. And the results were even worse than in 1996, when the public thought Clinton had raised the deficit. A majority of those who replied said the deficit has gone up, with more than 40 percent saying that it has gone up a lot. Only 12 percent answered correctly that it has gone down a lot.

Am I saying that voters are stupid? Not at all. People have lives, jobs, children to raise. They’re not going to sit down with Congressional Budget Office reports. Instead, they rely on what they hear from authority figures. The problem is that much of what they hear is misleading if not outright false, when so many get their news from FOX. 

 

Nothing new here, just a confirmation that the sheep get their 'news' from a biased source, that continually preaches 'Dems Bad, Repubs Good', with no regard for facts.