When did we start believing politicians?
I'm not sure when this began, but it needs to stop. The GOP has become so incredibly good at coming up with a simple slogan to bash every good idea that even remotely goes against its philosophy. Not to say that the democrats don't do this too, but the GOP has this email, writer-driven machine where every GOP member spouts the same BS.
So where should we get our information?
Experts. No one person can understand the entirety of the economy or even how a policy will effect such a large and complex system. Now we find ourselves pitting experts against experts in debates. Now we can start to look at their methodologies and see who is right. Understanding how an expert can accurately obtain a truthful opinion is within the realm of everyone's understanding. This is what we should be debating. Not if Obama is a socialist.
If you are reading this, you have an internet connection. There is no excuse for this level of ignorance, unless, of course, you are as lazy as your counter-unemployment arguments. If you don't know where to start, here's an excellent place -- NPR asks a real live Marxist socialist, what socialism is. You don't even have to read.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/16/...alist-weighs-in
While your at it go research unemployment and understand why it works so well to help the economy.