THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XII, Issue # 224, October 26, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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ADRIFT ON AN OCEAN OF LIES
By Alan Caruba
POLITICS, ELECTIONS, & LIES: THE GREAT ANGER DRIVING THE NOVEMBER 2, 2010, MID-TERM U.S. CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS -- DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE LIES TOLD TO AMERICANS BY PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, THE
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP IN THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS -- OUR NEED TO
EDUCATE OURSELVES ABOUT THE TRUTHS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF AMERICAN SOCIETY AS AN
INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE, A FREE MARKET ECONOMY, & A CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
FULL STORY:
“The men the American public admires most extravagantly are the daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those
who try to tell them the truth.” -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
One of the insights that age provides is that we are all adrift on an ocean of lies from the moment we are born to when we
pass from this world. So much of what we initially “know,” taught to us at home and in school, broadcast via newspapers,
radio and television, in the workplace, and, in particular, requiring us to make decisions about the politicians we select to
govern in our name, are lies.
The British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, categorized them as “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Lies and lying, however, may be the natural order of life because even nature employs lies when various species devise
ways to camouflage themselves either as a means to deceive and lure prey or to avoid becoming prey.
The prevalence of lies in the affairs of men and nations accounts for why the U.S.A. has a CIA and a NSA, two giant
intelligence and counter-intelligence operations. It is why a third branch of our government is the judiciary.
Americans are now experiencing an avalanche of lies in the form of political ads, media reporting intended to sway the
outcome of the forthcoming elections, and the pronouncements and predictions of various politicians and pundits. Not all
are lying, but it is safe to presume that most are.
The rise of talk radio and the popularity of personalities such as Rush Limbaugh are based on a hunger for the truth. The
revelation that National Public Radio has a deliberate Leftist agenda enraged many who genuinely enjoy its programs.
The great anger driving the mid-term U.S. congressional elections is directly traceable to the lies of the President, his
administration, and the Democratic Party leadership in Congress. Beyond and behind these lies is a mortgage banking
system that had been in place for years leading up to the moment that the critical housing market collapsed. The
“American dream” of a home must still be earned and paid for. There is no free lunch.
Simply said, making loans to people who were never expected to repay them, turning around and selling those mortgages
to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government entities which, in turn, “bundled” those bad loans and sold them as
securities to banks and investment house was, in hindsight, a system that had to fail at some point.
Congress passed and President Obama signed a “financial reform” bill that did not mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
but vastly expanded the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to withhold from the public information
regarding SEC duties, activities, and discoveries. The latter only compounded the lies. The Financial Reform Act of 2010
exempts the SEC from the processes and requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, thereby authorizing the agency
to decline to provide information it derived from surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.
The elections are about the lies told to sell Obamacare, to hide the real numbers of unemployed, to shut down oil drilling in
the Gulf of Mexico, and to insanely increase the U.S. national debt by borrowing more in two years than all previous
administrations combined had done since George Washington was President.
The lies came at a dizzying pace from the day President Barack Hussein Obama was sworn into office.
He told the world that America is not a Christian nation.
He said that “green jobs” were an answer to no jobs.
He said that Medicare “reform” was not a lie designed to implement a governmental takeover of healthcare, one-sixth of the
nation’s economy.
He said that General Motors and Chrysler were taken over as wards of the federal government, instead of being permitted
to reorganize (shake loose of union demands) under the normal process of bankruptcy.
He said the stimulus act was a solution to a stagnant economy, when it was, in fact, a laundry list of Liberal Democratic
earmarks, a “porkulus” bill.
He pushed for a Cap-and-Trade act to sell “carbon credits,” as the lies about global warming were crashing around the
world. This is the year that the Chicago Climate Exchange will end carbon trading.
The President who dazzled so many with soaring oratory during his campaign proved so inept at explaining his actions that
his formal press conferences virtually ceased, while his access to the nation’s print and broadcast media increased.
His use of Teleprompters became a national joke.
In a world where lies and the use of violence have always been a driving force throughout human history, where greed is
instinctual, we should not be surprised at the folly with which we are surrounded, but we can and must strive to educate
ourselves about the truths that are essential to the survival of our form of governance and the future of America.
We can learn that humans have nothing to do with the Earth’s climate; that nothing compares with or can replace the
original, totally natural biofuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — that socialism/communism always enslaves and always fails;
and that telling the truth is always superior to telling a lie.
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© Alan Caruba, 2010
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
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Congressional Legislative Politics & National Public Policy
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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