Back Talk

One of our newspaper's tiresomely predictable leftist writers did the predictable this week; he penned a hit piece in response to the huge turnout at the Glen Beck rally. It was not easy since it so popular and interesting in that even most of the liberal media reported that it was generally non-political. One writer noted, "One striking feature of Saturday's rally was how deeply religious and ecumenical it was." Nevertheless, Libertarian Beck is so threatening to the left, because he promotes smaller government, lower taxes, free trade, and freedom from bureaucrats that Liberals need to spring to the attack. Our Leftie titles his column, "Beck's popularity is a concern," His tortured analysis of Beck embodies the usual Liberal demagoguery: Scour the Internet for a few extremist writer quotes about Beck - protecting himself on the distinct possibility that quoted facts are actually lies. Then, our boy spews out the tried and true class hatred weapon by saying, "Beck is a millionaire, getting rich off foolish and gullible Americans who are scared their country is being taken over by commies or fascist or the Trilateral Commission or that scary Negro in the White House." This last statement betrays an underlying element of the liberal nature - they are elitists who believe they are smarter than the average bone-headed American citizen.

VP Joe Biden says the economy is swiftly recovering; everything is going to be just peachy. Mr. Credibility said further that we are re-building after the terrible mess that Bush and the Republicans left the Democrats. Some writer compared this obvious fabrication to the Monty Python episode where the pet store owner insisted the stone dead parrot was only resting. When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, unemployment was 4.5%, stock market was at 12000, and the deficit was 1.4% of GDP. Today unemployment is 9.5 and will likely climb higher, more than 18 percent of people who want full-time work can only find part-time jobs. Consumer confidence is destroyed, housing sales recently hit a 15-year low, and the stock market is off 11 percent since its April highs for the year. Runaway federal spending isn't likely to be brought under control as long as the major entitlements - Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - remain completely out of control. The number of entitlement beneficiaries is growing faster than the number of taxpayers, and entitlements account for more than half of federal spending.
When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 it was precisely the time that marks the beginning of the recession. The actual facts put the big lie to one of the many lies of the current Democrat regime.