Last night, Mr. Mendacity gave his State of the Union Message. I could not bring myself to
listen to his modern-day equivalent of “War is peace. Freedom is
slavery. Ignorance is strength.” (George
Orwell, 1984).
But there were listeners, some of whom found that Obama was stretching
the truth well past the breaking point.
Even NPR this morning found many
of his more audacious remarks to be questionable. To catch up on his speech, I found the
following fact-check listing of many of Obama’s truth-twistings. It is well worth a read: Breitbart Analysis. (Actually, even the Lily Ledbetter analysis is incomplete. There have long been laws that guarantee equal pay (for women) for equal work. The Lily Ledbetter law did nothing more than extend the period over which lawyers could sue employers for such misfeasance.) After pulling out your hair over these
whoppers, you might consider a stiff martini.
I have also
heard that, last night Obama bragged that his administration has created six
million jobs since he took office … an oft-repeated misdirection. This may be true in the sense that six
million Americans have found new jobs.
But what he doesn’t enumerate is how many Americans have lost jobs
during this same period. When His Royal
Highness took office in January of 2008, there were 145.4 million workers. Now, there are 143.3 million workers in this
country … which means that there are now 2.1 million fewer workers … while at
the same time our population has grown by 10.9 million (Source Bureau of Labor
Statistics). Basically, 6 million Americans
may have found jobs, but 8.1 million have obviously lost jobs. If one were measuring the height of the tide last
year this way, it would be 2 miles high because one would never count for all its
ebbs.
The real sad
part of this narrative is that obviously maybe half of all Americans are taken
in by this claptrap … the uninformed voter if you will. Are you one of them?
