Libel, Slander, and the lies the GOP tells to get the Tea Party into bed

Unaccountable is one word, what’s funny to me is that you’ll have Tea Party folks voting Mitt Romney, even though he won’t say which tax loopholes he plans to close.  Listen I’m all for a flat tax.  I think it would be great, close all the loopholes.  Everyone pays 25% on all earnings, no matter how they were made, if you have money in your pocket that showed up in that pocket this year, 25% of that goes to Uncle Sam and no one, no person or company gets deductions for anything.  However, Mitt’s answer is more along the lines of I promise I want to close loop holes, but really I want government to keep sucking you tea partiers dry, I’ll keep my exorbitant tax breaks and provide all the tax breaks to the big firms I own in some part (i.e. JP Morgan) and those that funded my election.  Oh and what is he going to cut from government other than the recently created efficiencies from healthcare?  Certainly won’t be a lot of deductions to the bloated defense budget.

If tea party folks had half a brain they’d stop listening to the rhetoric, look at the facts, and realize that the deficit was raised and government grew under George W. Bush, exponentially more than under Obama.  He’s working to make things more efficient, but he inherited a mess and real work and real solutions take time.  He’s not just promising the moon and assuring us all it won’t cost anything.  He’s saying look, I know how we get the welfare rate down, we clean up the healthcare system, provide birth control to the impoverished and in 10 years you can thank me because with the drop in birth rate among the poor and uneducated, we’re now experiencing a new historic low for welfare claims and it keeps dropping every day.  Why, because all those unwanted pregnancies who would become children and then adults on welfare or in prison were never created!

The real trouble is we need to make lying to the public illegal.  That’s the real law that needs to change.  The fact that my cousin can work for History channel and produce a show called swamp people and admit that he just makes shit up when writing the narration is the problem.  His way of putting it, as long as I don’t know it’s not true, I’m in the clear.  Slander and Libel laws need to be updated.  Being ignorant of the truth should be removed as an excuse.  Seriously drug companies aren’t allowed to do this, why are news networks, politicians and Super PACs any different?  If the truth could be easily found or is publicly available, say through a simple google search, or a trip to a library, the party publishing the information needs to be accountable for researching their material prior to publishing false statements.  Simply saying, ‘oh I wasn’t aware of that’, should not be a legal defense for printing or disseminating false information to the public.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, you’re worried about what all those poor Fox news pundits do when they’re out of a job?  Answer:  Pry the same thing they’re doing today.  Cry, bitch, moan, lie and whine like middle school girls.  Only the American public won’t have to suffer the consequences of listening to and basing voting decisions on their moronic, false and bigoted diatribe.