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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.
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I Almost Forgot, It’s Always the Dems Fault


A letter to the editor in The Columbian today:

Can we afford change?

President Bush has been in office for approximately 7½ years. During the first six years of his presidency the economy was fine. Consumer confidence stood at a 2½-year high; regular gasoline sold for approximately $2.19 a gallon; the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent; the Dow Jones hit a record high at 14,000 plus; Americans were buying new cars, taking cruises, and generally living large.

However, Americans wanted change. So, in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress and we received our “change.” Consumer confidence has plummeted; gasoline is approximately $4 a gallon; unemployment is up to 5 percent; home equities have dropped by $12 trillion; 1 percent of American homes are in foreclosure and the Dow is probing another low.

Now we have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic presidential candidate who claims he will give us additional changes. Can we really afford more changes?

Might agree with the author if there was any connection whatsoever between the cause and the effect.   You can live like you’re rich.  uy a fancy car and go on cruiseseven if you can’t afford them.  But eventually the piper must get paid.  It is not someone else’s fault that you exceeded your lifestyle.  The same logic applies with regard to our government’s actions.   Guess the author thinks that just saying there is a connection between unrelated events makes it so.

What about things like deficit spending, corporate deregulation, environmental and infrastructure degradation, illegal war and occupation, erosion of civil liberties, no healthcare for 45 million Americans and failure to regulate the mortgage markets for starters?  These things had nothing whatsoever to do with  “Consumer confidence has plummeted; gasoline is approximately $4 a gallon; unemployment is up to 5 percent; home equities have dropped by $12 trillion; 1 percent of American homes are in foreclosure and the Dow is probing another low”, right?

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