Republican Liars

I’ve had snippets of stuff for some days now and haven’t had the time to tie it together, so you’re getting the raw feed, so to speak:

It bothers me that Republicans and conservatives get to spout any old bullshit and wild-ass ideas and are never brought to account for the blithering idiots they are by the major media. From watching these people on TV, and listening to them on the radio for years now, it has become painfully obvious to me that most of them have no clue about what it is they are trying to pontificate. So imagine how horrifying it is to listen to their words being echoed by people you know and are close to. Aaaaaaaagggghhhh!!!!

The thing that ticks me off about the Republicans/conservatives is that they can flat out lie to us, try to revise history, and just generally have a very loose relationship with reality and real morals, all the while hypocritically posturing themselves as the righteous, responsible and truthful.

The Big Lie that they are pushing now is that Roosevelt and the New Deal did not get us out of the depression, that it was World War II that did that. Let’s look at a graph of GDP, a measurement that they like to use as a barometer of the economy:



What do we see when we deal with the real world and the actual facts of history? We see GDP peaked in 1929 when the stock market famously crashed. The Republican Hoover followed eight years of the Republican Coolidge. You see that GDP consistently went down for the next four years until 1932. By then, there was twenty-five percent unemployment and the people threw the Republicans out and brought the Democrats and Roosevelt in.

We see the New Deal begins and GDP climbs consistently for the next five years, exceeding 1929’s GDP by 1936. In other words, the Depression ended in 1933 since GDP began growing again that year, and continued until 1937. If you want to consider the Great Depression the trough of the graph of GDP over time, then it was over in 1936. The Republican Hoover took it to the low point, the Democrat Roosevelt brought it out.

Then, you have some Republicans pointing to 1938. Yeah, there was a down tick. Why? Because Roosevelt let himself get bamboozled by Republicans into cutting taxes and spending and the result was a recession in 1938. Roosevelt quickly reversed himself and growth resumed through 1941 and the beginning of World War II.

Even if one concedes the point of World War II getting us out of the First Republican Great Depression, what was the war but an enormous public works project? And here’s the real kicker, even though GDP goes up throughout the War, average people felt a lowering of their standard of living due to rationing and other shortages.

So then, anyone that tries to spout this stuff is either ignorant or lying. If it’s ignorance here are the facts of the case. You are no longer ignorant. To continue is to lie.

The question is why is this getting any play in the Media?

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