Posted by
Corthell on Monday, November 09, 2009 4:46:15 PM
''People are not buying the media spin, and they are rejecting the propaganda. More people are getting off their sofas and getting informed, involved and engaged in fighting against how the liberals in Washington are trying to change this country with propaganda and ineffective policy.'' There's an old saying abou
t a glass being half empty or half full. The optimist will view it as half full, while the pessimist will say it is half empty.
But when the glass is nearly empty and it's called "nearly full," or a big success, that's pure political propaganda. The danger with political propaganda is that it borders on just plain lies, exaggerations or intended deceptions.
President Obama and the Democrats told the public in February that they needed to pass the $787 billion stimulus bill to keep the unemployment rate under 8 percent. The rate has increased in an almost vertical fashion every month since then, and the Labor Department reported Friday that October's rate hit 10.2 percent.
President Obama's response to the report was, "I will not rest until all Americans who want work can find work." With all due respect, Mr. President, you will not get any rest for a long time because spending and debt do not create jobs.
I know it's a long shot, and your people may not show it to you, but I suggested a plan that would make you look like an economic hero.
President Obama also said he would not sign a health-care bill that adds one dime to the deficit. In order for the House Democrats to pretend to get to "not one dime," they low-balled the cost at $894 billion by shifting some items elsewhere, disguising the tax increases and assuming unrealistic cuts in Medicare. The real cost is $1.5 trillion at least, and no government social program
in history has ever hit "at least."
Speaker Pelosi recently echoed President Obama's remark that "health-care reform is entitlement reform, which is essential to lowering the deficit." Wow! Really!
They are proposing to spend $1.5 trillion over 10 years on a new social program that looks like Medicare's ugly twin sister, containing more than 50 new layers of bureaucracy, and somehow it is going to magically reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and reduce the deficit at the same time. Right! And I can fly. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115392