Yesterday the Canada Free Press posted an article entitled, “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts.” It’s about believing facts or feelings. The article cites a cable television show called “Bulls**t!” that occasionally airs on Showtime. The show takes ideas that are generally accepted and exposes the fraud in many of them. One example of this (I don’t know whether it is from the show or not) is a YouTube video of Penn and Teller collecting signatures from people on a peititon to ban water (by calling it dihydrogen monoxide).
The article goes on to detail a show that was done about organic produce. By the end of the show, it was demonstrated that organic and non-organic products are not always easy to tell apart and that organic does not necessarily mean better.
The article reports:
“But it gets even better. In one hilarious segment, the presenter cut a banana in half, told people one half was organic and asked people which half tasted better.
“One woman who claimed her entire diet consisted of raw fruit and vegetables, was especially effusive regarding how much better the organic half of the banana tasted. When the truth was revealed, the tester asked the woman if she still thought organic food was superior. She answered yes–and somewhat belatedly admitted such feelings might be “psychological.” In other words, facts be damned, I just like feeling good about what I believe in.”
This leads me to the following point. It is becoming very obvious that the current economic policies of America are not working. The progressives running the country do not seem to understand why corporations are not hiring or why they are shipping jobs overseas. The overregulation and overtaxation of business as the cause of this does not even remotely occur to them. They simply feel good about all the spending they are doing to ‘help America.’
The article concludes:
“Here’s two ideas, Mr. president: one, give up the ghost on your tedious and ultimately destructive allegiance to re-distributionist Marxism, masquerading itself as Keynesian stimulus. It hasn’t “created or saved” anything other than government budgets and public sector unions. Those priorities demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that getting re-elected, rather than fixing the economy, is your first priority. Second, show Tim Geithner the door. His credibility, highlighted by his assurance in April that the U.S. would never get a ratings downgrade, is completely gone. He should be completely gone as well.”
It’s time to admit spending is the problem, and deal with it. The debt ceiling was a rather feeble start, but it was a start. It is now time to get serious about budget cuts. That is the only way out.