Do they really think that the bit about federal expenditures for welfare means anything? I mean, if you ask your typical Boston liberal whether they are in fav

Do they really think that the bit about federal expenditures for welfare means anything? I mean, if you ask your typical Boston liberal whether they are in favor of increased or decreased military spending and they say, "Decreased" is that opinion suddenly ignorant or wrong or anti-democratic because they then guess that current expenditures are 50 percent (too high)? Seriously, forget balance sheet trivia. Let's worry about the basic cognive skills of journalists first.