By Manila Ryce
Published Sunday, March 23rd, 2008, 5:28 pm
Filed under: Society/Culture
Don’t be alarmed by the figures. 73% of all statistics are completely made up anyway.
Only a third of people trust official statistics, according to official statistics.
Figures from an Office for National Statistics poll of more than 1,000 adults also found the majority thought figures were manipulated for political purposes.
According to the research, just 36% of people believed official statistics were accurate.
And 84% said the Government twisted figures when talking about its policies.
The figure of 36% confidence in official statistics represents a 1% decline since 2005, when 37% of people trusted official statistics, according to statistics.
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This important fact, that almost 75% of Americans no longer believe the statistcis from government and business alike, is the fruit of the endless stream of lies that has poured like a river of feces from the mouths of the Bush administration since day one.
Of course no one believes these liars. They have proven over and over that they will lie when the truth would have been just as easy for them to tell. They are so toweringly stupid and arrogant that they believe that if they say it that’s all that is necessary. Our function, in their view, is for us to lap up their lies like a cat does cream from a bowl.
George W. Bush is the Father of Lies in America. Before Bush we all knew that on occasion we must be suspect of what our government has told us. For decades now our government has chosen to lie, obfuscate, misinform and spin the news that we hear. That being said, I must say that Bush and his whole filthy bunch have made lying an art form.
The fact that Bush and Co. are inveterate liars is right in line with the fact that they are the bought-and-paid-for tools of Corporate wealth and power. Their god is money and power just like their wealthy corporate masters who are the actual government of the United States. Only the most disingenuous of us believe anything that Corporate America has to say. Just look at the array of crappy products and services thatt they feed us daily.
There is a remedy for all of this. If we can demand that the members of the Congress, specifically the House first, open and pursue articles of impeachment against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (to begin with). I have certainly done so repeatedly over the last seven long years of the Bush regime. These criminals can and should be removed from office and then prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law.
03/24/08 at 6:33 pm