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Originally Posted by freeweed
We can't possibly have rational discourse, it's all about splitting people on emotional lines and forcing everyone to stand on one side or the other.
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This sums it up. The political spectrum is just that: a spectrum. It seems that anyone who even approaches the centre (or dips a toe on the "left" side) is immediately labelled a socialist, bleeding heart, communist, etc.
The whole report card, IMO, is simply short-sighted. The criteria was picked by several interest groups to reach a desired conclusion. The media picked it up just as they were supposed to and ran with it. As others have already mentioned, penalizing all spending without analyzing the related savings/benefits, both direct and indirect, is not telling the whole story.
That's not left, right, or centre. That's just looking past the headlines. And I'm quite moderate on the spectrum - whatever that means these days.
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