That's the same reasoning behind "Moderates!" By never allowing themselves to become committed to anything concrete, they then can appear wiser and more anal-ytical than all the rest of us by playing it safe, right?
Yawn!!!
I see you have optimistically opened with a straw man argument. The old "either/or" gambit. You falsely present our disagreement as a choice between total optimism or total negativity. In reality, all I was pointing out was something obvious even to a 10 year old. That sometimes bad things really do happen, and the mature, wise thing to do when that happens is to face it, not to bury your head in the sand.
and alla us knee-jerk optimisty dudes are full of it, right?
The correct application of optimism in this situation would not be to delude yourself that a deficit of 300 billion is good news. Clearly, it isn't. The optimist would say that even though the situation looks bad, we can work our way out of it. But that's not what you're doing. You are pretending everything is fine because doing so makes you feel good.
That's the same reasoning behind "Moderates!" By never allowing themselves to become committed to anything
I very clearly committed to the fact that a 300 billion deficit is bad. You just want to be on a winning team and feel good. I want to face facts and deal with them. I'd say my approach is more optimistic, because unlike you, I haven't retreated into self-delusion.