{"id":411,"date":"2003-03-27T21:47:32","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T02:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2003-03-27T21:47:32","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T02:47:32","slug":"just-lie-to-me-so-i-wont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"just lie to me, so I won’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Found it here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I promise I will stop dwelling on the political in a minute, because I am in need of dipping the ladel into the truly deep well–it is very overdue.  Until then, here’s a fairly decent article<\/a> about a few of the indecencies of the Bush administration.  This is just the tip of the iceberg, but nobody really wants to know that.  <\/p>\n

The brazenness of this approach would be hard to believe if it weren’t entirely in line with how the administration has pursued so many of its other policy goals. Its preferred method has been to use deceit to create faits accomplis, facts on the ground that then make the administration’s broader agenda almost impossible not to pursue. During and after the 2000 campaign, the president called for major education and prescription drug programs plus a huge tax cut, saying America could easily afford them all because of large budget surpluses. Critics said it wasn’t true, and the growing budget deficits have proven them right. But the administration now uses the existence of big budget deficits as a way to put the squeeze on social programs–part of its plan all along. Strip away the presidential seal and the fancy titles, and it’s just a straight-up con. <\/p>\n
– from “Practice to Deceive”
\nby Joshua Micah Marshall
\nat WashingtonMonthly.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This country is great.  The people of this country are great.  The young men and women in this country’s military are great.  Help me know, then, how it is these things have happened.  Are we not responsible for the things these warmongers do with the authority they have derived from us?  <\/p>\n

But nobody really wants to know that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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