tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264148977155820969.post9068140265265595088..comments2024-01-28T15:51:01.643-05:00Comments on Spirit of a Progressive: Whose Debt Is It Anyway?Peter Feganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10949239024795435039noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8264148977155820969.post-43517752055296325992012-09-09T13:13:11.124-04:002012-09-09T13:13:11.124-04:00Hats off to a reader of the blog - and you thought...Hats off to a reader of the blog - and you thought I didn't have any - who correctly pointed out that the graph I inserted in the piece was incorrect. PolitiFact had concluded that the numbers for Bush and Obama were skewed due to a discrepancy involving dates.<br /><br />"Whoever put the chart together used the date for Jan. 20, 2010 -- which is exactly one year to the day after Obama was sworn in -- rather than his actual inauguration date. We know this because Treasury says the debt for Jan. 20, 2010, was $12.327 trillion, which is the exact number cited on the supporting document that Pelosi’s office gave us.<br /><br />"However this error happened, it effectively took one year of rapidly escalating debt out of Obama’s column and put it into Bush’s, significantly skewing the numbers."<br /><br />For the record no data from the graph was used in the piece and I have since switched out the incorrect graph with the correct graph to reflect a far more accurate representation.<br /><br /><br />Peter Feganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10949239024795435039noreply@blogger.com