Twenty-seven Lies To Be Wise To

Twenty-seven Lies to be Wise to     October 13, 2012

1. You can trust the news media.
2. This Congress is maximizing employment and improving our well being.
3. This Congress is worth the salary and benefits we pay hard-earned money for.
4. Social Security is going broke.
5. Privatizing Social Security would be best for all.
6. Medicare is going broke.
7. We take good care of our veterans.
8. We’re doing too much for the poor.  We need to cut all entitlements.
9. Redistributing wealth is wrong.
10. A flat income tax is the fairest.
11. We live in a “free-market” economy.
12. We can’t fix the earned income tax problem.
13. The TARP stimulus didn’t work.
14. We need a constitutional mandate to balance the budget.
15. Those “No New Tax” pledges benefit everyone.
16. You can trust everything you hear about the Affordable Health Care Act.
17. A good politician will never mislead you.
18. A good public personality will never mislead you.
19. The two major political parties want only what’s best for our country.
20. Voter ID laws are “Party-neutral” and needed.
21. The Electoral College system is better than one person/one vote.
22. We are the “good guys” in the international community.
23. Economic sanctions unseat despotic regimes and promote compliance.
24. Collateral damage is not inflicted by us on people like us.
25. The War on Terror is not self-perpetuating.
26. It’s not about the oil.
27. The War on Drugs is working.

Aww sing it with me, “Around here, we’re wise to these lies…”