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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1303600, member: 22143&quot;]I don&#039;t deny these facts at all as it has nothing to do with the National Debt discussion.&nbsp; But what you provided does prove exactly what I said. Your example is understandable because the absolute numbers are provided.&nbsp;&nbsp; If however you had simply said the cost to buy bread has dropped to 50% of that in 1900, the party has no idea what you are talking about.&nbsp; Was it because salaries rose a lot faster than bread costs or is bread making extremely cheap now, etc.?&nbsp;&nbsp; This is why you have to have the underlying data before the statistic makes sense.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A more real life example.&nbsp; The government says that unemployment dropped from 10.5% to 10%?&nbsp; It sounds good, but without the data, you have no idea if it is good or not.&nbsp; Is it because they stopped counting people because they gave up looking in a hopeless economy and thus the labor force dropped, or does it mean more jobs were created.&nbsp; No way to tell.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is why I said that statistics are useless without knowledge of the data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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