Intro

It's time for a reality check ...

Maybe we’ve reached the point of diminishing astonishment.

But I suspect that much of what we’re hammered with every day really doesn’t make much of an impact on most of us anymore. We’ve heard the same stories too often. We’ve been exposed to the same issues for so long without any meaningful resolution. We recognize that reality is rapidly becoming malleable, primarily in the hands of whoever has the biggest microphone. How else can we explain a society where myth asserts itself as reality, based entirely how many hits it gets online?

We know that many of the “issues” as defined are pure crapola, hyped by politicians on both sides pandering to “the will of the people,” which is still more crapola. Inevitably, it’s not the will of all the people they reflect, but the will of relatively small groups of people with disproportionate political influence.

Nobody wants to face up to the realities of the issues. Nobody wants to say what’s right or wrong – even when it’s obvious and there are numbers to back it up. Most of us are afraid to bring up the realities for fear of being accused of being insensitive or downright mean.

So we say nothing. Until now.

It’s time for a reality check on the fundamentals – much of which is common knowledge to many of us, already. But it might be comforting to know you are not alone …

Monday, September 24, 2012


NBCnews.com – at it again

It’s not that I want to make a personal mission out of keeping NBCnews.com honest – which would appear to be an impossible task – but sometimes you just have to call them out. 

One of today’s headlines was:

“Raise taxes and cut spending, business economists say” 

Which, if you only read the headline, would make you think that a majority of business economists are in favor of higher taxes and lower spending. 

And that would be the wrong conclusion.  In fact, there’s nothing in the article to support that headline.  If anything, the majority don’t think we should raise taxes anytime soon …

“Most of them think Congress should wait until 2014 before raising tax rates. Only a small minority favor a permanent extension of lower payroll tax rates. A higher percentage — between 35 percent and 45 percent — favor permanent extension of current tax rates on income, dividends, and capital gains.”

With the “current tax rates” being the ones so criticized as the “Bush tax cuts,” I believe. 

There’s also nothing about cutting spending in the article. 

Here’s the link to the article in full:  http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/24/14048116-raise-taxes-and-cut-spending-business-economists-say?lite

Now it could just be me, but what was NBCnews.com trying to do here?

Obviously, one goal certainly was to rile up their loyal lefty base, as witnessed by the comments.  The usual loons came out – who clearly hadn’t read the article – praising the need to raise taxes, and citing this article as more proof of the righteousness of their cause.

Except nothing in the article, except for the vaguely worded intro, supported that.  And that was unsubstantiated by the rest of the article.

So again, NBCnews.com distinguishes itself by misreporting the news.  Or trying to invent "news" they wish were true out of thin air, not to mention thin facts.  

Coincidence? 

I don’t think so.      
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