They don’t know nothing about it. They know two things.
It’s a debt reduction plan
It’s named after Panetta and Burns
Here are some reasons to oppose the plan, based on the above knowledge:
We don’t need a debt reduction plan, just keep doing what we’re doing and it will sort itself out.
I like another existing plan, and this is not that one, so I oppose it.
I’ve heard of Panetta and (s)he’s a complete douchebag. Anything they’ve come up with is clearly junk.
I haven’t even heard of either of them, so what the heck would they know about debt reduction?
They’re from different parties, there’s no way they could have come up with something sensible.
I’ve heard 10 different plans described, and surely this is one of them. I can’t remember which one this is, but I hated all of them so I must oppose this too.
And of course you can make a very similar set of reasons to support it. Not trying to rationalise people’s stupidity or make excuses for them as such, just present the opposing argument in all its glory. Ok maybe making excuses for them is exactly what I’m doing. But honestly, how many of your political opinions, as a percentage, including all those that you don’t know you have until asked, are really much better than the reasons above?
Devil’s advocate time:
They don’t know nothing about it. They know two things.
It’s a debt reduction plan
It’s named after Panetta and Burns
Here are some reasons to oppose the plan, based on the above knowledge:
We don’t need a debt reduction plan, just keep doing what we’re doing and it will sort itself out.
I like another existing plan, and this is not that one, so I oppose it.
I’ve heard of Panetta and (s)he’s a complete douchebag. Anything they’ve come up with is clearly junk.
I haven’t even heard of either of them, so what the heck would they know about debt reduction?
They’re from different parties, there’s no way they could have come up with something sensible.
I’ve heard 10 different plans described, and surely this is one of them. I can’t remember which one this is, but I hated all of them so I must oppose this too.
And of course you can make a very similar set of reasons to support it. Not trying to rationalise people’s stupidity or make excuses for them as such, just present the opposing argument in all its glory. Ok maybe making excuses for them is exactly what I’m doing. But honestly, how many of your political opinions, as a percentage, including all those that you don’t know you have until asked, are really much better than the reasons above?