You need to familiarize yourself with some of the facts available in Economics 101 at any good non-socialist university.
Most of your theories and ideas are as delusional as that of your hero, Algore.
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The Washington Times
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October 9, 2000
Master of mendacity
Mona Charen
Everyone knows that Al Gore's biggest problem is a
tendency to lie, which is why his resort to lies in the first
debate is almost creepy. For several weeks, the news has
been full of Mr. Gore's little exaggerations and fibs. One
would have thought that if he had one goal, it would be to
avoid any additional lies.
But he couldn't resist.
Right out the box, when asked about a direct quote in
which he had questioned Mr. Bush's qualifications to be
president, he denied he had ever said it. Well, as they say in
the movies, you can look it up. If he hesitated to repeat this in
front of a national audience lest he look churlish, there were
other options. He could have said: "If I conveyed doubts
about Mr. Bush's qualifications then I may have been
imprecise. What I really contest are his proposals." But Mr.
Gore chose dishonesty. The resemblance to his mentor, Bill
Clinton, is uncanny.
George W. Bush, in a magnanimous moment, offered a bit
of praise for the Clinton-Gore administration, noting that the
director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) had done a fine job during the fires and floods
Texas has recently endured. Unable to muster a gracious
response, Mr. Gore basically seconded Mr. Bush's praise of
his own administration and amplified it to be sure everyone
caught his role "FEMA has been a major flagship of our
reinventing government efforts, and I agree it works
extremely well now." But not even that bit of self-inflation
could satisfy the egomania of our vice president. He then
added, "I accompanied James Lee Witt down to Texas when
those fires broke out."
Well, no he didn't. Mr. Gore is a solipsist: Everything and
everyone is interesting only insofar as it relates to Himself. If
he wasn't there, it couldn't have been important. But it clearly
was important, so he had to be there. Al Gore is the Zelig of
modern politics, painting himself into pictures of which he was
no part. He invented the Internet, co-sponsored
McCain/Feingold, discovered Love Canal, faced danger in
Vietnam, rocked to sleep as a babe to music written when he
was an adult and authored the expansion of the Earned
Income Tax Credit. He now claims he legitimately read in a
newspaper article that he was the model for Erich Segal's
tearjerker "Love Story." Baloney. People know this sort of
thing. Mr. Segal has even gone public saying Mr. Gore was
not his model.
In addition to forever exaggerating his own
accomplishments, Mr. Gore has the repellent habit of always
assuming the worst about you. He has worked mightily with
debate coaches and image-meisters to tone down his
monumental condescension, but he still cannot quite shake it.
That was the root of his recent gaffe regarding prescription
drug prices for mothers-in-law and dogs. He had seen a
Democratic Party handout claiming veterinary medicines are
cheaper than those for humans. But instead of simply relaying
this information (actually, it's propaganda and it's not true) to
voters, Mr. Brilliant felt it might be too hard for their weak
minds. He figured he had better personalize the story for
them. And so he claimed that his mother-in-law and his dog
were taking the same medicine and paying very different
amounts.
That same Let Me Simplify This For You mindset was at
work in the debate over and over again, but he got caught
when he used little Kailey Ellis as the symbol of
overcrowded, underfunded public schools. The day he
visited, Kailey had to stand in science class for a few minutes
until someone got her a lab chair. Mr. Gore did not inquire
about the facts. He grabbed Kailey's name and ran. Later,
we learned it was one of the first days of school in one of the
wealthiest districts in Florida, that Kailey was standing
because they were unloading $100,000.00 worth of new
equipment and that she was given a desk the following day.
Here's a deal that might satisfy voters and might prove
even more remunerative than Mr. Bush's tax cut plan - have
Mr. Gore give taxpayers back one dollar for every lie he tells.
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