Getting Our Ears Tuned To Hear And Understand Government Speak
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
The Obama propaganda machine is preparing to start taking credit for the economic turn-around, even if they have to make some of it up in order to convince us how well they have been doing. As covered here, the details are emerging on how we need to start to understand that indeed government spending has made us to be in as good of shape as we are. We’re also supposed to accept that it might require tax increases as a solution to the problem with the deficit. Lastly, those troubling unemployment rates are just normal economic forces and the things we were told about how they were going to keep the overall rate below 8 percent by spending more than at any time in history – it just turned out things were really worse than we could have ever imagined.
We’ve seen governments in the past use their propaganda wording to explain how the things they have done really didn’t cause the negative impacts that happened, attempting in the process to take credit for good things still to come. Those in charge of our country currently (in the White House and in Congress) seem to have studied those lessons well. Blame the problems on the past, twist the perceptions, enhance the contrast (even if you need to make some of it up) – never accept responsibility unless it helps you to take credit.
All you need is a willing messenger system to carry your “truth” to the public and with the adoring public media we have today, the Obama Administration and those in charge of Congress are being well served.
The Obama propaganda machine is preparing to start taking credit for the economic turn-around, even if they have to make some of it up in order to convince us how well they have been doing. As covered here, the details are emerging on how we need to start to understand that indeed government spending has made us to be in as good of shape as we are. We’re also supposed to accept that it might require tax increases as a solution to the problem with the deficit. Lastly, those troubling unemployment rates are just normal economic forces and the things we were told about how they were going to keep the overall rate below 8 percent by spending more than at any time in history – it just turned out things were really worse than we could have ever imagined.
We’ve seen governments in the past use their propaganda wording to explain how the things they have done really didn’t cause the negative impacts that happened, attempting in the process to take credit for good things still to come. Those in charge of our country currently (in the White House and in Congress) seem to have studied those lessons well. Blame the problems on the past, twist the perceptions, enhance the contrast (even if you need to make some of it up) – never accept responsibility unless it helps you to take credit.
All you need is a willing messenger system to carry your “truth” to the public and with the adoring public media we have today, the Obama Administration and those in charge of Congress are being well served.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/3/2009 7:31 AM 
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Federal Stimulus Deficits
Categories: Economy
Tags: Unemployment Federal Stimulus Deficits
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