In my previous post Obama’s Challenge: A Transformative Opportunity, I extolled the interview with Robert Kuttner. I said:

Robert Kuttner provides the facts and figures that dispel the notion that we don’t have the resources to solve these problems.

Well, I stumbled across a post on another blog called The Only Winning Move written by Joshua Herring. I was stunned at how someone could hear the same interview that I did, and yet come up with such a different reaction. I post the link to the blog just so you too can see how one’s prior convictions can blind you to information (I am sure that is true of me too). I hope that Joshua does a better job of looking for the truth in his PhD studies than he does in the political/economic realm.

Joshua is so sure of his own set of facts, that he couldn’t believe anything that Kuttner said.  If Joshua had to mis-hear what Kuttner said to reconcile with his own inner demons, then that is apparently what Joshua did.

When Joshua says such things about Kuttner as

He happens to know off the top of his head that the debt is $5.6trillion

then you know he is clutching at straws.  Kuttner is being interviewed about a book that he has just written.  Joshua is sure that numbers that Kuttner is using just came into his mind and were not the product of research for the book.