Washington suffering from truth decay

Washington suffering from truth decay
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
October 18, 2013

Ever since the congress decided that they knew what we wanted better than we did, this country has been one huge mess. One crisis after another has left most of us wondering "What the hell are they talking about?" when we hear them say things that make no sense at all.

After the stunt at the WWII Memorial with Ted Cruz pretending he gives a damn about veterans after causing the shutdown, that pretty much proved they have no shame. Is it they really believe what they say or is it they are just used to living in fantasy land and pretending to be something they are not?


Cruz said "Our veterans should be above politics." So why is he there after he pushed to have the government shutdown and then voted to keep it closed? Did he really think he could pull a sham and open the memorials while leaving veterans shut out of everything else they care about? Did he think about the veterans who do not use the VA and need healthcare coverage? Did he think about how there are a lot of veterans working for the departments he just shutdown? Did he think of anything but himself?

"Social Security is a welfare transfer system." Paul Ryan said that in 2005 when no one knew who he was.


Did he care veterans get social security too? So do their widows and orphans. He didn't think about them any more than Mitt Romney did when they wanted to privatize the VA.
Then there is this.

“The Romney 59-point plan, the word ‘veteran’ is not mentioned once,” he said, referring to the GOP nominee’s plan for economic recovery. “The Ryan Budget, no mention of veterans. Mitt Romney’s website — he’s been running for president for at least five years, so he’s not new to the game, or the Internet — Mitt Romney’s website didn’t even mention veterans until about a month ago. It’s been online for at least a year. Consistent.”

Biden mocked Romney’s explanation for omitting any reference to the war in Afghanistan or to veterans in his convention speech, a criticism he noted was first leveled by conservative author and Fox News Channel contributor Bill Kristol.

Asked by Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier why his was the first GOP acceptance speech since 1952 not to mention an ongoing war, Romney replied, “When you give a speech, you don’t go through a laundry list. You talk about the things you think are important, and I described in my speech my commitment to a strong military, unlike the president’s decision to cut our military.”

Maybe they think they can get away with it because reporters never really question them on anything. Face it. Most of us are not very well informed. That was proven when reporters went out and asked people what they thought about Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, as if they were two different things.

Ill-informed citizens

Unfortunately, public ignorance is hardly specific to ObamaCare, nor is it merely the stuff of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" interviews, in which he finds people who think that America declared our independence from Greece and that Winston Churchill was the commander of the Revolutionary Army.

A Harris Poll for the American Bar Association in 2005 found that 22% of respondents thought the three branches of government were "Republican, Democrat and Independent." Two-thirds of Americans couldn't name a single sitting Supreme Court justice in 2003, and fewer than 1% could name all nine. In 1987, about half of Americans thought Karl Marx's dictum "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" was in the U.S. Constitution. In 1964, only 38% of the American people were certain the Soviet Union wasn't in NATO.

Regardless of partisan agendas, this is a huge problem, but we don't hear much about it because one of the drawbacks of democracy is that politicians will never insult the customers. Worse, virtually all the conventional wisdom, not to mention academic and media gasbaggery, is that the biggest problem with our political system is that not enough Americans are participating, even though it's a good bet that if you don't know anything about politics or current events, you're less likely to vote.

That is how they get away with it! Too many people just don't pay attention.

This is the man the GOP put in charge of the budget of this country.
What his value system is and his belief system is based on? Really? But you wouldn't have heard that when he was running with Romney. You sure didn't hear that when he had already put together budgets that cut the elderly, poor, needy, disabled, veterans and everyone else. You sure didn't hear that when he had to explain why the Senate wouldn't even hold a vote on his budget. Why? Because he never had to explain what was in it. So listen to what he said out of his own mouth and know that the Senate has been protecting the rest of us from him and the rest of the members of congress who wanted to keep the government shut down.

When you hear a politician proudly talk about voting against ending the shutdown know they were defending this and not us. Know that they must agree with Ryan or they would have demanded he did a budget that could have passed the senate. In January when we face all this all over again because these yahoos can't do their jobs, remember we were warned what they were going to do and why they were going to do it.