Start Believing Your Lying Eyes

Everybody smiles at the old saw "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?". It is now time to filter out that background buzz and believe what you see. Like with a magician. Don't listen to the banter. Watch what they do.

Let's start with Reagan signature question. "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Most families will say, absolutely not. Some, about thirty-three percent say that they are better off. I believe them. There are a few people out there running small businesses that are still successful. Fewer every week. Professional athletes and entertainers, Obama's crowd, are most certainly better off. And there are even a few people that were out of work that found new jobs. Way too few. And again, fewer every week. Even if you are holding even, you are blest if you are, isn't there a little tingle of fear in the back of your mind. I expect that there might be.

Remember two summers ago, Biden"s grand announcement of "The Summer of Recovery". That went well. Right through this whole ugly mess, the administration has said we are in recovery and they are creating jobs. But some how the GNP is always flat or down and the number of jobs overall diminishes every month. Some call it spin, I call it lying.

Obama would says the he for an across the board energy plan. Except that he is destroying the coal industry. Coal generates most of your electricity. He wants more oil. Unless it comes in on the XL pipeline from Canada. Or from drilling in Anwar. Or drilling off shore. Or where there is some kind of bird or bug or salamander that, he is told by his green contributors, must be saved. And you can't have fracking. It has never been shown to do harm. But who cares about real evidence. It's how you feel about it that's important.

OK. We'll use wind power. We'll just set up those big ugly towers. Not in any politicians line of sight, please. Of course those big propellors do kill eagles and hawks and other protected species of birds. But that's OK, because that is renewable power. If you killed protected species in a coal mining operation you would go to jail or be hit with a major fine. I'm going to make a prediction here. In twenty years those towers will not be functioning because they are expensive and difficult to maintain. And as they break down they will be abandoned and become a blight on the landscape because no one will allocate money to remove them.

Well, there is solar. Acres and acres of fragile glass panels to maintain and keep clean. Meanwhile pray the sun stays out. And it's not terribly efficient. These so-called renewable technologies are not mature products and will not make a dent in our current needs. Just because the president dreams it, doesn't make it so.

Meanwhile we are pouring out money that we don't have at the rate of 4 billion dollars a day. Obama has increased the national debt more than all previous presidents combined. But he says he has spent less. It just goes on and on. Say one thing do the other. Folks better start believing their own eyes while we still have a country left.