Obama Lies

Shortly after hearing prevaricator in chief, Barack Obama, hold forth in the White House presenting evasions, half-truths and outright lies about the Social Security tax cut shell game, I happened to read Gorbachev’s comments on propaganda in the old Soviet Union:

“Propaganda of success - real or imagined - was gaining the upper hand. Eulogizing and servility were encouraged; the needs and opinions of ordinary working people, of the public at large, were ignored. In the social sciences scholastic theorization was encouraged and developed, but creative thinking was driven out...Similar negative tendencies also affected culture, the arts and journalism, as well as the teaching process and medicine...At some administrative levels there emerged a disrespect for the law and encouragement of eyewash and bribery, servility and glorification.“

When even a dedicated Communist can finally speak the truth about how government interference corrupts economics, morals and reason, is it too much to hope that the truth could come from Obama’s forked tongue?

“Perestroika” a book by Gorbachev contained an unsparing indictment of the socialist system over which Gorbachev presided. He said that Soviet society has suffered “a gradual erosion of...ideological and moral values.” If only liberals could also learn to speak the truth. We unfortunately hear daily about Green Jobs and Green Energy as the future and salvation of America. Obama hectors Americans with false pieties and outright lies about the cost of these Green Projects. Electric cars are an article of religion among Obama and lefties but what do they really cost us, the poor taxpayer? Does each Chevy Volt, a General Motors’ plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, cost taxpayers up to $250K? According to James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether. Hohman looked at total state and federal assistance offered for the development and production of the Chevy Volt including 18 government deals featuring loans, rebates, grants and tax credits. The amount of government assistance does not include the fact that General Motors is currently 26 percent owned by the federal government.

Government and politicians, especially Obama, lie!