{"id":30414,"date":"2012-09-14T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30414"},"modified":"2012-09-14T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T06:41:42","slug":"the-democrats-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30414","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats’ Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

You see it in Presidential statements, in Bill Clinton’s pro-Obama ad, and all over the place:<\/p>\n

“Deregulation and tax cuts are what got us into this mess in the first place”.<\/p>\n

It’s a Big Lie, and they’re repeating it over and over and over, in hopes that they can lop off not only the low-information voters, but maybe a few “moderates” and “Independents” who don’t pay much attention beyond the sound bites.<\/p>\n

The melt-down in the financial industry was caused by the socialization of risk and privatization of reward – by the government.<\/p>\n

The melt-down had nothing to do with tax cuts. \u00a0Democrats say that the deficit was exacerbated by the Bush tax cuts – which is true, if you believe that spending is inviolate and must be paid for rather than cut.<\/p>\n

“But non-discretionary spending is, well, non-discretionary”. \u00a0Only if you don’t have the guts to change the laws.<\/p>\n

Long story short: \u00a0the Democrats are lying to you, in hopes that enough of you are uninformed or incurious enough to buy their BS.<\/p>\n

There’s really no more artful way to put it. \u00a0And I’m getting tired of trying to be artful about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You see it in Presidential statements, in Bill Clinton’s pro-Obama ad, and all over the place: “Deregulation and tax cuts are what got us into this mess in the first place”. It’s a Big Lie, and they’re repeating it over and over and over, in hopes that they can lop off not only the low-information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-the-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30415,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30414\/revisions\/30415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}