10 Big Lies Republicans Tell

10 Big Lies Republicans Tell

The American Republican Party has taken "The Big Lie" as a political
concept to new heights of mendacity. Adolph Hitler defined the
political stratagem of "The Big Lie" in Mein Kampf:

"…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility;
because the broad masses … more readily fall victims to the big lie
than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in
little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale
falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate
colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have
the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, used the artifice of
blaming his enemy, the British, for "The Big Lie" in order to hide his
own. He said in "From Churchill's Lie Factory," dated January 12,
1941, "The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should
lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk
of looking ridiculous."

Certainly Conservatives have accused Liberals of big lies recently so
in fairness the reader should know that I have no plans to vote for
another Republican in my lifetime. You may therefore consider the
source as you read my list of the 10 Big Lies Republicans are telling
the American people.

Big Lie #1: Lower Taxes Create Jobs. Under President George W. Bush,
businesses and wealthy Americans enjoyed the lowest taxes in a
century, and yet only 1.1 million jobs were created in that 8-year
period, as compared to 22.7 million created during President Bill
Clinton's term, before the tax reduction. Furthermore, President Bush
was credited with the loss of 1.55 million jobs in his last 3 months
in office, and that momentum carried over to the loss of 1.83 million
jobs during the first 3 months of President Obama's Administration.
Republicans must admit that President Obama was handed a collapsing
economy.

Big Lie #2: Republicans Reduce the Deficit and National Debt.
Statistics clearly show that the last Republican President to reduce
the National Debt as a percent of Gross Domestic Product ("GDP") was
Richard Nixon, not someone we usually associate with fiscal concerns.
President George W. Bush increased the National Debt from 56.4% to
84.6% of the GDP, about $6.1 Trillion in round numbers. Even though
saddled with President Bush's vastly increased debt service, President
Obama has only increased the debt by $1.7 Trillion, while faced with
saving the American economy from total collapse. Every Democrat since
Roosevelt has reduced the National Debt as a percent of GDP, while
every Republican except Eisenhower and Nixon has increased the debt.

Big Lie #3: Lower Taxes Help New Businesses Create Jobs. This is
Republican bologna of the first order. New businesses never have
taxes, because in their startup period they are spending more money
than they're earning. Furthermore, since they usually suffer losses
during a startup period of at least 2-3 years, they have "tax loss
carry forward" in later tax years. Therefore, taxes rarely enter into
any decisions relating to creating new businesses.

Big Lie #4: Social Security and Medicare Will Go Bankrupt. No they
will not, because the solution is simple. Everyone earning under
$106,800 pays Social Security tax on 100% of his or her income. If
you earn more than $106,800, you pay nothing on the amount over that
amount. This means that someone earning $1 Million per year pays less
than 1% of their income for Social Security. How is it fair to have
such regressive taxes? The wealthy take the most from our society in
the form of assets we all buy: they have roads for their trucks,
armies to defend them, and education for their employees, among many
other benefits that most of us pay for but use very sparingly.
Secondly, our population has grown more than 50% since the end of the
"Baby Boom", so while that generation is larger, the population paying
taxes to cover their benefits is also growing very fast. Republicans,
who have already arranged for less than 1% of our population to
control more than 50% of our national wealth, are just hoping to take
even more, and create a society of slaves to debt. Some would say
they have already succeeded!

Big Lie #5: Republicans Believe in "Family Values". Well, perhaps
they do, but the ones they use in politics are just diversions to keep
Americans from talking about how the wealthy are ripping off the
country and most of us. Here's their list:

a) Abortion: Prohibiting abortion will save exactly zero babies.
Before abortion became legal in the United States, about 16% of our
medical community was regularly committing felonies by performing
illegal abortions. Did criminalizing our medical community help the
nation? How about those well meaning sorority sisters with their coat
hangers? Was that better? How many places in the world can someone
go to get an abortion today? If we criminalize abortions again,
babies will not be saved, we'll go back to the bad old days, and we'll
further brutalize our society once again.

b) Gay Rights: What business is it of ours to even think about what
our neighbors do in the privacy of their bedrooms? Do you live in a
glass house? Why are we even talking about this? Do we think we will
stop the behavior by making it more difficult for our fellow
countrymen to live their lives? What are Conservative Republicans
thinking? I think they're just using the usual smoke and mirrors to
hide the fact that they are destroying our future.

c) Evolution: Conservative Republicans support fundamentalists who
want us to believe that humans were developed by "intelligent design"
5,000 years ago. They need to stop supporting militant ignorance. We
have remains of human ancestors dating back 4 million years, and we
can see back to within 500,000 years of the "Big Bang" and down to
particles smaller than atoms. Why are we militantly and ignorantly
denying science? Is this the way to make the United States of America
the envy of the world again? I recently heard a news story saying that
a fundamentalist Christian was mad at a teacher for revealing to an
11-year-old girl that the "tooth fairy" does not exist. What are they
thinking? How will children raised in those environments cope with
our steadily more complex real world?

Big Lie #6: Barack Obama Is Responsible for the "Obama Economy".
George W. Bush handed President Obama a collapsing economy caused by
the profligacy of his Wall Street supporters. As the
#OccupyWallStreet movement is beginning to show, Americans aren't
buying the Republican game any more. Most of us remember President
Bush and his cronies doling out nearly $1 Trillion in TARP (read
"stimulus" or "bailout") before they left office. The Republican
Party needs to change its obstructionist behavior to something that
makes sense for the average American, or it can forget the Presidency
for the next generation.

Big Lie #7: "Obama Care" Is Bad? Well, it's an interesting buzz word
the Republicans are using to hide the fact that before the healthcare
changes passed during the Obama Administration, there were over 40
million Americans without health insurance, and many children and
people with pre-existing conditions could not obtain health insurance
from the Republicans' insurance company allies at any cost. Of
course, the wealthy could care less about that. If you pay yourself a
$100 million bonus, you don't have to worry about health insurance.
It's just the rest of us, who do the work in their companies to make
them wealthier, who do!

Big Lie #8: Democrats Are Soft on National Defense. So far, the
Republicans are looking pretty ridiculous on this one. First they
told "The Big Lie" to get us into a war in Iraq, thereby creating
hundreds of millions of new enemies for us in the Middle East. Next
they refused to follow the Geneva Convention, thereby proving to those
new enemies that we are not the benevolent country we think and
pretend we are. And now Republican candidates are implying that they
want to get us into another war with Iran. Just great! Meanwhile,
President Obama has shown a quiet and effective methodology for
handling our foreign affairs. He's actually following a dictum
espoused by a Republican President of the early Twentieth Century,
Theodore Roosevelt, who said, "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."
It is really not necessary to have everyone think we're the policemen
of the world.

Big Lie #9: Ronald Reagan's Administration Was Good for the Economy.
Ronald Reagan's performance on our National Debt was the worst of any
President in history. During the Reagan Administration the National
Debt increased from $930 Billion to $2.68 Trillion, an increase of
2.89 times over the level it was when he took office. The National
Debt increased by 23.6% on average every year of the Reagan
Presidency.

Big Lie #10: Illegal Immigration Will Be Stopped by a Republican
President. Mitt Romney ran an "amnesty state" during his time as
Massachusetts Governor, while Rick Perry made coming to this country
more attractive by allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition
at state universities. As long as we have illegal immigration, we
will have an artificial slave class in the United States, because
illegal immigrants are not protected by minimum wage statutes. All of
the evidence over the last 3-4 decades says that neither major party
will push for sensible immigration reform.

So there you have it! Ten "Big Lies" the Republicans are telling to
win the White House and control of Congress. Are we going to continue
to stand for it?

More:
http://americanmaninthemiddle.com/2011/10/31/10-big-lies-republicans-tell/

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