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Wrong
and Liars Too: 6 Tricks God Has Played on Liberals Since November
By
John Ransom
Sep
11, 2013
The
last year has been highly informative for Americans who have been
looking for information on hypocrisy, shabby intellectualism, broken
promises, opportunism, populist dreck, and IPhones.
Since
almost the moment Obama celebrated his re-election with Republican
leader John Boehner by proposing to raise taxes on all of us, God has
played an enormous practical joke on liberals.
In
only ways He could, God has shown that liberals are wrong. Not just
wrong, but really, really, seriously wrong.
Demented
even. And yeah, I’m talking about Ezra Klein.
No,
the world really doesn’t work the way liberals want, they’ve
found out, and what’s more, liberal leaders and scribblers know it.
They have known it for years.
Liberals
have, in 50 years, morphed from the idealism of Camelot to the
reality-game show hostness of Al Sharpton.
It’s
not even just that they are wrong, it’s that at the top of the
liberal pyramid they are liars, intellectually bankrupt, the moral
and intellectual equivalents of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, spreading
a gospel which not only they don’t understand, but the they exploit
for their own, and no one else’s gain.
It’s
been little less than a year for people who enthusiastically voted
for Obama in 2012 to find this out.
And
what liberals miss in being wrong on specifics, they make up in
volume.
So
let’s make a list, shall we?
1)
Tax the Rich! Oh, and you too!
Liberals
were wrong in blaming the rich for everything that was wrong with
everything in the world. They got their tax increase on rich people-
and poor people too- and it hasn’t ushered in period of great
prosperity. In fact, research show pretty conclusively that the tax
increase that liberals elected Obama on in 2012 has been bad for the
economy.
Our
contributor, Political Calculations has a nifty tool that can show
you how quantitative easing, tax increases and government spending
cuts have affected the economy.
“One
thing that you'll find is that over 90% of the negative drag on GDP
may be attributed to the tax hikes that took effect in 2013,”
writes PC. “Less than 10% may be attributed to reductions in
government spending at all levels in the U.S. Finally, if you really
want to play the ‘what if’ game, try combining government
spending cuts with modest tax cuts in our tool …. One may wonder
why today's politicians aren't discussing implementing this
particular combination of fiscal policies.”
One
can wonder, but frankly the answer is easy.
Liberals
are greedy for the wealth acquired by others so they can use it to
keep their government-dependent constituency happy.
Which
brings us to:
2)
The Great Sequester Doom.
The
world didn’t end because liberals were forced to agree to
across-the-board spending cuts. In fact, generally speaking the world
is a better place, even if across-the-board-spending cuts were the
wrong way to approach spending cuts.
Economists-
outside of nuts like Paul Krugman- agree that the sequester has had
little impact on the economy short-term and provides a great deal of
benefit long term.
Yet
today the White House still says: “Harmful automatic budget cuts —
known as the sequester — threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs,
and cut vital services for children, seniors, people with mental
illness and our men and women in uniform. These cuts will make it
harder to grow our economy and create jobs by affecting our ability
to invest in important priorities like education, research and
innovation, public safety, and military readiness.”
The
White House is publically trolling for sequester sob stories on it’s
website; and in a sign that few stories exist, few stories of
sequester related disasters, personal or bureaucratic, are made
public by the White House.
3)
IRS-NSA-MOUSE scandals.
Well
at least the evil, terrible Tea Party people got what they deserved
when liberals from government agencies like the IRS started
recognizing the great danger they pose through tax-exempt donations
that mostly measure in the tens and twenties of dollars. And just to
be sure that ordinary people don’t get too carried away by that
whole “freedom” thing, the government, we know now, has been
reading all of your internet traffic, tracking all of your phone
calls, breaking laws, even those laws promulgated by a SECRET COURT. In
the USA: A SECRET COURT. Really.
Right
now as you read this, someone is watching you. Not that George Orwell
predicted any of this, like the part about being constantly at war,
hurling missiles at other countries in a standoff and fight war, or
anything.
Because
that was just fiction, right?
Which
brings us to:
4)
Missiles Over the Mid-East.
The
president who said he was elected to bring us peace, has brought us
more war, and losing war at that. Iraq, Benghazi, Libya, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Egypt- almost- will be lost despite Obama’s chest
pounding in the region. While Carter only lost a country- Iran-
Obama’s set to turn over the Middle East to implacable enemies of
the United States…
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