Say It Often Enough
By BummerDietz
During my first week of law school, a professor showed a tape of a trial, where the accused was caught red-handed on a video robbing a store. The defense lawyer's sole tactic in defending the case was to say to the jury, repeatedly:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this video is proof of my client's innocence. As you can see with your own eyes, clearly the man in this video is not my client."
The defendant was absolutely, factually guilty, and the video image was clear and convincing. But the defense lawyer hung three juries with his argument. Meaning, all you need is one person....
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In the past 45 days, it has been vogue among a certain set to claim that, "Social Security isn't broken." In case you had any doubt, anyone who made that claim was, and is, lying to you:
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In the 2005 Annual Report to Congress, the Trustees announced:
-The projected point at which tax revenues will fall below program costs comes in 2017 – one year earlier than the projection in last year’s report.
-The projected point at which the Trust Funds will be exhausted comes in 2041 – also one year earlier than the projection in last year’s report.
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Trustees also said that Medicare faces insolvency in 2020 .
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"Clearly, the man in that video is not my client."
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