text: Just so RG readers know, the author of this spiel is a guy named Michael Barbaro -a guy who's been repeatedly called out for dishonesty and bias by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and is well known to shill Republican's like Jeb Bush (who he claims- get this: " is “bookish,” a “voracious reader” and “self-described nerd” who “flew in Ivy League social scientists for daylong seminars with his staff.") 
  
  And also for Paul Ryan, whose outright lies about basic arithmetic apparently make him some sort of maths and economic wizard. To Barbaro, at least.
  
  Quite frankly, given this guy's background and utter disregard ethics on the record- RG readers have a right to ask why his material is being reprinted here.