Saturday, March 26, 2011
Bob Reich spotlights Republican/Teabagger lies
The ones they have been telling for thirty years while those thirty years have been proving that they are lies.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was in town yesterday (specifically, at Stanford's Hoover Institute where he could surround himself with sympathetic Republicans) to tell this whopper: "Cutting the federal deficit will create jobs."Bob is also annoyed at the lack of Democratic pushback against the Republican/Teabagger lies. Perhaps we would all be better served by screaming outrage.
It's not true. Cutting the deficit will creates fewer jobs. Less government spending reduces overall demand. This is particularly worrisome when, as now, consumers and businesses are still holding back. Fewer government workers have paychecks to buy stuff from other Americans, some of whom in turn will lose their jobs without enough customers.
But truth doesn't seem to matter. Republicans figure if their big lies are repeated often enough, people will start to believe them.
Unless, that is, those big lies are repudiated – and big truths are told in their place.
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