Politicians are masters of
lying and have spent decades trapping gullible
victims in webs of deceit so complex the truth is
completely obscured to all but those who expend
great effort to learn it. In the name of public
service, today’s column reveals a trade secret to
guide you through the smoke and mirrors of political
manipulations. (It is a secret, so keep it between
us.)
Whenever a politician offers a
statement as fact, ask yourself, “How will he/she
benefit if I believe them?” Many times the answer
to this one question clarifies everything. We will
apply the “who benefits” trick to two stories I
found in the November 21st Drudge
Report. The first story is a simple one, just for
practice. The second story is convoluted and some
people will disagree with the truth even after it is
revealed. Here we go.
Story #1: Today, trendy women
follow the teaching of Hollywood prophets and feel
it is attractive to have a larger than normal
backside. They will invest large sums of money
building one. Apparently, if your bottom is so
large it obscures an 18 inch saddle plus most of the
horse it’s cinched to, you have reached the level of
a modern day goddess. To enhance her self-esteem
and obtain a job in a night club, a young Florida
woman met with a cheap plastic surgeon in a darkened
Miami motel room. She forked over $700 cash to a
man, dressed as a woman, impersonating a doctor, and
he/she injected the girl’s backside with a secret
concoction of cement, mineral oil, and flat-tire
sealant. Post-operatively, the injection holes were
sealed with Super-Glue and the patient waddled out
the door. Twenty-four hours after treatment the
young lady visited an emergency room in excruciating
pain. (Please insert the expression “No Excrement”
here.)
If we apply the “who benefits”
question to the story, the fake doctor stuffed his
wallet, or her purse with $700, so he must be
lying. Upon release of this story numerous other
victims have bravely waddled forward, so expect to
see some Florida politician add Fix-A-Flat to the
list of dangerous items requiring a prescription.
The second story is full of
lies and half truths. You might want to diagram this
lie on paper because it is more convoluted than
giving $700 to a transgender, fake doctor to inject
your backside with concrete…although the effects of
both lies are ironically similar.
Story #2: Politicians spend
money to feel good—they just love giving away your
stuff. Collecting other people’s money is easy
because a cold government bureaucracy, the Internal
Revenue Service, does the dirty work. With the
simple push of a button, ruling-class politicians
decree the percent of their subject’s personal
income they wish to be charitable with and the
wheels of big government begin turning.
Politicians have generously
given away 15 trillion dollars more in freebies and
programs than the IRS has collected in the
treasury. (This is problematic to those of us
paying the bills.) President Obama’s 2012 budget is
a record $3.73 trillion and marks the first time
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on
the debt will consume all tax revenues. Twelve of
the politicians who created the very problem offered
to get us out of the debt hole by adopting the name
“Super Committee” and without actually stopping
digging they are formulating a plan to slow the rate
at which they are digging. The November 21st
deadline passed and the Super Committee
astonishingly announced, “We have no plan and the
hole is getting deeper.” (Please insert the
expression “No Excrement” here.)
Politicians on the Super
Committee are advancing the lie our debt problem is
caused by the rich not paying their fair share. In
reality, the ruling class could confiscate all
income above $100,000 and garner only $3.4
trillion—an amount insufficient to fund federal
freebies. Who benefits if you believe them? They
do. Increasing anyone’s taxes shrinks the economy
and grows government, so in the end, the
ruling-class Super Committee strengthens their grip
over your life. It is called death through
dependency. Because it is a mathematical
impossibility to balance the federal budget by
increasing revenues—the problem is on the spending
side. They are lying.
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