The Great Propaganda Hoax: Automation is the Great Job Killer

Automation is not the great job killer, shipping jobs overseas is the great job killer and tax base destroyer. That’s why the deficit is so great.

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Deficit Hawks are Wrong Again, and Again and Again and Again…

Interest rates remain at historic lows despite massive government borrowing. For years Republican deficit hawks (and a few dumb Democrats) have tried time and time again to instill panic among the mass of financially ordinary US citizens by insisting that continued government borrowing would raise interest rates, thereby bringing on a terrible recession and destroying everybody’s livelihoods. Like that hadn’t already occurred during the Bush regime when then Vice President Dick Cheney famously said, “Ronald Reagan showed up that (federal) deficits don’t matter.” Cheney understood the lesson, President Obama didn’t.

The purpose of this public relations stunt was to influence the Obama administration into cutting government spending, thereby slicing jobs and gross domestic product, and in the process letting the president cut his own throat when it came to being reelected to a second term. The result has been spectacular since President Obama was stupid enough to take the bait.

US deficit spending has been reduced, although still growing strong. The official unemployment rate remains mired between 8 and 9 percent; the real unemployment rate is closer to 15 percent if the rate was measured in the same way it was during the Great Depression.

Click the link below for more interesting points of view on deficit spending by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman.

New York Times–Money for Nothing

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The Lie About Peak Oil

Did you ever notice that every time there is a short-term shortage of oil or the price begins to rise, there is talk of running out of affordable oil, an idea captured by the concept of Peak Oil. You remember that slick slimy scam artist who talked of it a decade ago; Dick Cheney, our then unelected but acting president. As soon as he said it, the price of gas zoomed from $1.25 a gallon to $4. People actually believed the liar as income was redistributed from our pockets into the pockets of rich oil company executives and their shareholders. In other words, after Cheney’s propaganda campaign took root, an income redistribution scam took place. The rich were sucking us dry even while there was plenty of oil for which we should have been paying half a dollar at the pump or less, if market mechanisms were allowed to function. Nowadays, the process is happening, but the problem isn’t Peak Oil. No, sir. The problem is too much oil and too few producers that act together to squeeze the middle class and redistribute income from the 99 percent to the one percent. Of course, we have a government of slimy plutocrats, like Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, working to ensure this income redistribution scam works.

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Condoleezza Rice Claims Cheney Lies in His Memoir

One thing should be pointed out about the article below. Rice is also a known liar. Now she’s mad because Cheney lied about her.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the third senior official from President George W. Bush’s administration to accuse Dick Cheney of lying in his new memoir, “In My Time.”

Rice told Reuters in an interview Wednesday that she “kept the president fully and completely informed about every ‘in and out’ of the negotiations with the North Koreans,” countering the former vice president’s assertion that Rice misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.

“You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president,” Rice said. “You know, I don’t appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies.”

Rice also disputed Cheney’s assertion that Rice “tearfully admitted” she was wrong for wanting the administration to apologize for President Bush’s claim in the 2003 State of the Union that Iraq was searching for uranium for nuclear weapons.

“It certainly doesn’t sound like me, now, does it?” Rice said.”I would never–I don’t remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him.”

Rice admitted that she told Cheney he had been correct about the press reaction to the uranium claim.

Rice is the third former official from George W. Bush’s State Department to dispute parts of Cheney’s memoir, which was published on Tuesday.

The book has provoked rebukes this week from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as Powell’s former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson.

During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Powell defended himself, Rice and others against what he said were “cheap shots” lobbed by Cheney in his memoir to boost book sales.

Powell said contrary to Cheney’s claims, the former vice president deserves no credit for Powell’s resignation, that Powell presented dissenting views on the Iraq War to the president and that Powell and his former Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, are not to blame for the Valerie Plame scandal.

In an interview with “Democracy Now!” on Tuesday, Wilkerson asserted that Cheney’s fears of being tried as a war criminal influenced how the former vice president characterized situations in his memoir.

“This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will ‘Pinochet’ Dick Cheney,” Wilkerson said, referring to Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who was charged for war crimes.

Wilkerson said it was “utter nonsense” for Cheney to claim to have anything to do with Powell’s resignation.

“The only person Cheney does not seem to find fault with is Cheney,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson said he regrets not resigning for putting together Powell’s February 2003 presentation to the United Nations on the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Creating that presentation “was probably the biggest mistake of my life,” he said.

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Is Dick Cheney A Socipathic Nazi and War Criminal? See Video Below

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Is Dick Cheney a War Criminal? Click the Video Below

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