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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (10828)2/3/2006 7:47:05 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) of 541786
 

A Heritage Foundation spokesperson is hardly a partisan free advertisement. Such an observation would require a rather large amount of evidence.

Wow, that seems rather cynical to me. Sure the Heritage foundation has its biases but so do other sources, perhaps every other source to a greater or lesser extent the bolded statement is a simple statement of readily verifiable fact. (The budgets for each year are available online for free)

There might be some bias over what is selected as "a government benefit program". Perhaps a different selection could give you something other than a reduction in "total growth in federal benefit programs over the next five years from 39 percent to 38 percent.", but if its 32% or 25% or 1% its still not a cut let alone a slash.

The difference required to make a 38% increase in to "slashing spending" is not something that any normal level of bias could account for. The statement in the Heritage article would have to be a bald face lie, not just an example of bias.

If you want to look at the raw data yourself go to
gpoaccess.gov

For something more accessible you could check out
aei.org
aei.org

or the other links at

Message 22131309

Yes the American Enterprise Institute is also biased but their data shows all the major federal departments so the possible selection bias is eliminated. But maybe their liars too??

The other links are not quite as informative but they include liberal, conservative and libertarian sources. Its unlikely they would all be biased to a great degree in such a way as to try an paint the administration as increasing spending if it was really slashing it.

Tim
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