Robert Reich: Don't Fall for the GOP Lie

[cal04]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/6813-dont-fall-for-the-gop-lie

A friend who's been watching the absurd machinations in Congress asked me "what happens if we don't solve the budget crisis and we run out of money to pay the nation's bills?"

It was only then I realized how effective Republicans lies have been. That we're calling it a "budget crisis" and worrying that if we don't "solve" it we can't pay our nation's bills is testament to how successful Republicans have been distorting the truth.

The federal budget deficit has no economic relationship to the debt limit. Republicans have linked the two, and the Administration has played along, but they are entirely separate. Republicans are using what would otherwise be a routine, legally technical vote to raise the debt limit as a means of holding the nation hostage to their own political goal of shrinking the size of the federal government.

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Repeat after me: The federal deficit is not the nation's biggest problem. The anemic recovery, huge unemployment, falling wages, and declining home prices are bigger problems. We don't have a budget crisis. We have a jobs and growth crisis.

[Autumn]

1. "and the Administration has played along,"

I think that just says it all.

[Vanje]

2. +1000! nt

[louslobbs]

4. Yes, I think that does say it all unfortunately.

"the administration has played along," and not only that, "the administration," offered up Social Security for cuts, when the hostage takers weren't even demanding it yet. That I believe, says even more about "the administration." The teabagger Republican and most Republicans have literally gone mad, they have lost their individual and collective minds. Why in the name of anything sane, would anyone try to negotiate or "play along," with these sociopaths, these liars, these hypocrites, (and as a Congressional gang of terrorists), this out of touch and hostage taking faction of the new "dictator like, ruling Congress." These people don't want governance under our constitution, they want what they want when they want it, and if they have to bring this country to the brink of economic or social destruction, then so be it. Heil Congress.......heil Boner.......heil McConnell........heil Cantor. Heil Republicans!
Lou

[Bill USA]

3. recommended!!

[drakonyx]

5. I'll gladly repeat after you ...

I've been saying the same thing for some time. Maybe if enough of us keep saying it, folks will actually start to listen.