Filed under: Government Spending, Obama, Staging | Tags: heritage foundation
The folks at Heritage have been releasing some powerful illustrations lately, perhaps none better than the one below, which shows the size of President Obama’s proposed spending cuts in relation to the massive levels of recent federal spending:
One thing many conservatives have done for far too long is try to make points only using words and unemotional logic and reason. Of course, when the other side always says they want to “help” the children or the elderly, responding with points about millions and billions and percentages is allmost always a losing argument.
We need to draw pictures for people so they can literally see the difference between millions and billions and trillions. We need to tell emotional stories to people so they feel what’s at stake if we continue to saddle our children and grandchildren with crushing debt. And with the one illustration above, Heritage is probably educating and mobilizing more people than they did with their last 10 (very well done and informative) policy papers combined.
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