I am pretty sure that most everyone here accepts that in the financial side of politics, though why we put up with such BS, I don't know.
Kind of like how unemployment in the great depression was measured by taking the number of people that could work and subtracting the number that were working. Now, it is the number of people filing unemployment claims which is grossly inaccurate since once you don't file or can't file anymore, then you aren't counted.
I would like to see a clear and concise glossary and definition of terms allowed by politicians to use in describing economics. So when you say a "cut in spending" it means "spending less real dollars than the previous year" and not what it often means "not increasing spending as much as planned".