SPIN, LIES, LEADERSHIP? AND IGNORANCE (OURS)
by CoolCat on Jul 14, 2011 at 22:19 Political
Spin
More misuse of our language (an addition to Fictionary July 10 post). The oft-used word invest. When it is uttered by a politician, you can be sure it has nothing to do with what we typically attribute it to. Their invest is a red herring for a big government program that is (probably) a repeat of an already instituted, failed and wasteful spending program that didn’t work the other times, is now repackaged and renamed for the same negative results from the same dumb premise. (I know, a long description, but oh so true.) Perk up your ears when they say invest; is government investing our money? Au contraire!
Where in our country are housing prices still rising, and where is there no unemployment problem? You guessed it! These staffers are in our world? And, this is the place from which often emanates that all-too-common D.C.-ism: We must invest in our children’s education. Really? Is the American public still falling for that worn out mantra?
News flash! You can’t fix a social problem by throwing money at it. Other countries have more students per classroom and a whole lot less money spent per child and get much better results. Their children are there to learn! Their parents demand it…their culture demands it…their teachers and administrators demand it. We (taxpayers) can feed kids breakfast and lunch and send them to the best school in their vicinity. But, if these same kids go home to an unfit guardian or adults who are terrible character examples, our money that our government spent is wasted. You can’t make life fair for some kids by feeding them, bussing them to a good school and sending them back home to non-parenting. That waste is multiplied when that unproductive, untamed and disrespectful child is an adult on welfare or in prison.
As long as we have no expectations of our children, guess what we get?
Give ’em the two “L’s” — love and limits. Yes, the limits are just as important as the love!
Lies (just two blatant examples)
Your government’s definition of transparent, independent and accountable by Secretary Sebelius, at the 5th bullet point. Do you believe her?
Your government’s Department of Homeland Security and another whopper from Janet Napolitano. Do you believe her? Did you believe her when she said our borders are safer than ever?
Leadership?
The Obama administration and many economists have warned of economic catastrophe if the United States does not raise the amount it is legally allowed to borrow by August 2. The last time we believed scare tactics by the Drama Queens they bailed out the big banks and corporations and then, to add insult to injury, they stimulated our debt and unemployment with our money on a credit card!
Ignorance
Apparently we Americans don’t know much about America. Pitiful! But, then who hasn’t seen those incredible Jay Walking bits? (This video: Your reward for reading this far!) Maybe we got where we are today because we don’t know what, when and how this country became so great. We don’t know our own American History! Maybe we ought to start getting smart, paying attention, and becoming responsible citizens. No point in waiting for or expecting those in charge to change their ways!
My Personal Desire – time to get back to the basics. More reading and learning for me. It really is quite easy today with answers to everything literally and figuratively at my fingertips! What excuse do I have?
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
– Aristotle
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
– Winston S. Churchill
A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
– George Santayana
Some historians hold that history is just one damned thing after another.
– Arnold Toynbee
CoolCat
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Tags: Commentary, history, housing prices, Jay Walking, leadership, lies, spin
The important thing is that the history we learn is correct and not the rewritten revisionist stuff that comes from the left.
Correct. There’s another post. Where do you get your information from?
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, as someone once said.
My worry, (and it grows by the hour), is that the Republicans will cave and we will get nothing more than a shinier can to kick down the road.
this is what Bari wants- to bankrupt the US-and he is doing it, because decent men blinked.(I do not think there is ANY progressive socialist who is decent).
The nature of the socialist is to take from those who have and give to those who don’t have, and in the socialists rule book, since YOU have it, ergo they don’t. So their goal is to take. Period.
Socialist liberals are no better than a robbery at gun-point, except with an armed robber, you have the chance to shoot them or run. Not so with a socialists government.
They make it against the law to resist their robbery.
How come your resident Socialists is so quiet lately? Adam! Wake up. Seriously boy wake up. Your heroes and their evil aims need your…support.
Yeah, the difference between being mugged in an alley and being mugged by government is that you can prosecute the mugger…
Who’s the resident socialist who’s quiet?