Smoke And Mirrors

I have been talking about Congressman Paul Ryan today and his promotion of the House GOP "alternative budget". Well what I didn't mention was that he also had an op ed in the WingNut Journal this morning also advocating for his plan. In the op ed he included this chart. Look it over and then see if you can find anything curious about it.









I knew something looked wrong about this picture but I didn't take it seriously anyway. Then I went over to TPM and Josh Marshall points out that the chart goes out 70 years. Now keep in mind that the President's budget only went out 10 years and if you look carefully the numbers during that time of their estimates of the percentage of GDP that their budget would take up isn't far off at all from President Obama's budget projections. Now if you are skeptical like me you have to believe that they fudged even those numbers on their own projections. You don't see an actual big divergence until 20 years from now, at best 12 years AFTER President Obama will be out of office, which nobody has actually game planned out.

This is just another reason why you can NEVER take Republicans seriously these days.