I was listening to a report on NPR yesterday on Pres. Obama doing a ceremony in OH to commemorate the stimulus package. The reporter suggested that people are so worried about the deficit that attempts to advertise the advantages of the stimulus will also attract attention to government spending, which will remind them of the deficit.
I was in my car at the time and wondered what, exactly, the guy was talking about. Guess it's this.
Such is the really stupid stuff of much of our public discourse.
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It is simply the Big Lie Strategy. Nothing more or less. Scared people can be manipulated. Being scared and helpless is even better. Since everyone is helpless when it comes to the "deficit" then scare them with that.
Somewhere down the line we are going to feel used, ashamed, and stupid. It will all be true, we were.
Dick Cheney got one thing right. He said that the Reagan years taught people that deficits don't matter.
And he's part of a party that only cares about them when they're out of power. Like the abortion issue, Republicans only care about this stuff when they can beat people up with it.
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