Maybe

I just read where our dear, sweet President says we can't afford to borrow $700 billion dollars from other countries in order to give millionaires the Bush era tax cuts.

Boy, if that isn't twisting the truth to the breaking point I've never heard it. Someone really ought to explain to the President that, unlike a "tax cut" like they give to people who don't pay taxes and then have to write them a check, if you give a tax cut to someone who actually pays taxes, you don't need to come up with any money.

Now had the President said what he really meant, he would have said something like, "If we let these rich people keep the same percent of the money they earn that they are presently keeping, I will have to borrow another $700 billion dollars in order to spend it on stuff the majority of Americans don't want." But that just isn't as compelling of an argument. He can't really gin up the class warfare sentiment by accurately describing what he wants.

By making it sound like the government will be giving these people all this money, he makes it seem as if all money is the governments and is just given to people. Then those of a more socialistic bent start thinking, "Why, they should give that money to me. Not some rich guy!" When in fact the rich guy is just keeping a percentage of what he earned. And a smaller percentage than you or I keep of what we earn.

This whole process of creating false premisses to rail against has been a favorite tactic of politicians for years. The liberals have not only done it themselves but they have had willing accomplices in the main stream media as well as the entertainment industry.

For decades now, we have been inundated by TV shows and movies where conservatives and business have been the villain. From the time we were kids and the evil bank owner Snidely Whiplash tied Little Nell to the train tracks, to the modern day Avatar, where the evil company is willing to kill the natives to get the mineral they live on top of. We are constantly feed a diet of conservative BAD, liberal GOOD! It makes the truth of a another false statement seem to ring true.

Another case of the big lie. Say it loud enough and long enough with enough conviction and folks will start to believe it. And thus the liberals have developed a whole subculture of anti business graspers. People who believe that those who have made better decisions or worked more efficiently or harder owe them some of what they earned.

Last week has given me hope. I believe Americans are waking up from a long political slumber. Maybe now is when the political pendulum turns back. Maybe now we can start to overcome the effects of years of liberalism. Maybe now we will see the resurgence of the "Christian Work Ethic" that developed this country into the greatest country in the history of the world.

Maybe........