Numbers Game

Jun 19, 2008 - 15:10 PM PST
In last month’s Harpers Magazine Kevin Miller wrote an article that describes how our economic numbers are routinely changed and tampered with so that the government can keep interest rates and unemployment figures low which makes borrowing easy. It started with JFK, was ratcheted up with Reagan and Bush the first, ignored by Clinton and redoubled with the current Bush.

I think that we can’t trust a single poll or number we ever hear anymore. I read a different number on Bush’s approval rating every week and whatever the number I say it has to be false. 24% was the last number I read, and I’m trying to fathom where 75 million people can live in America completely cut off from the media, not dependant on gas to travel and have no military friends, family, or community members. The number has to be doctored for the sake of the fat republican coffers. There are 75 million people that still think this President is doing a good job? I can understand a 1 or 2% rating, but 75 million people? At this point? It’s too staggering to be true.

So in this politically charged climate can you blame anyone who sees this as the beginning of the end? Why vote? Why care? Why try? Why listen? It’s all so tainted and false and who brings it to us? The same media we trust with our American Idol lives with.

If you are not seeking out other sources for your information you are asking to be mislead. I knew the Iraq invasion was a sham. How? I don’t know but I did. Maybe it was the “Freedom Fries” lunacy in the Congressional cafeteria that clued me in. None of it made sense to me. It smelled false from here. And aren’t members of our Congress just now slowly admitting maybe they were a bit hasty with their vote? Umm…aren’t they supposed to be more informed than us?

Every Congressperson who voted yes stood to make money. That’s all it was. The few that dissented (unpatriotic bastards!) obviously had some idea that this was a sham, or didn’t like their slice of the pie.

Listen like you never did before and use your own common sense in place of a Pundits opinion to choose your candidates from here on. The lesson is clear. If you allow the current crop of Congresspeople to represent your interests, they focus only on that 24% of us that polls show believe in them whether the whole world suffers or not.

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