Of all the cynical, deceitful things BushCo has done during W's five year Reign of Error, I think the blatant manipulation of and lying about the economy ranks high on the "egregious" list. Not because politicians aren't prone to spin the brightest face on any given situation, that's a given. Rather, because of the disastrous consequences such machinations are setting us up for.
I'm concerned because too many people really believe BushCo's bullshit, especially if they're currently doing well themselves. Maybe they successfully flipped a couple of houses before houses started flipping back and crushing their mortgage holders. Maybe they made a few bucks in the market. Contrary to what the cable propaganda machine tells us nearly every day, most "average Joes" are not in the markets, and a couple of record highs on the Dow don't mean squat to them. Certainly not directly, anyway, as is the case with the players who've made a killing off of the administration policies which are breaking the backs of individual "average Joes" and, many will say, the very nation itself.
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