Obama's massaged 'facts'
Perhaps the most telling aspect of President Obama's inability to deal with reality is in ignoring facts when he gives a speech. He is a political animal, so enslaved to his ideology that he sees facts as irrelevant to his goal, the furthering of that ideology.
Earlier this month, the president claimed that there is a renaissance in American manufacturing. He completely ignored the facts at hand in this, and indeed his past efforts have clearly not been friendly to manufacturing. He mentioned five companies as being important to U.S. manufacturing: Johnson and Johnson, Honeywell, Stryker, Dow, and Allegheny Technologies, all multinationals.
He ignored the fact that gains in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are related to the slow recovery across the board in the U.S. and lag behind anything that could be called positive growth. Since 2000, there has not been any real growth in manufacturing jobs. You have to cherry-pick the numbers to make the situation appear positive. Such a claim of a renaissance requires you to look at automotive job growth only after these jobs cratered five to six years ago, resulting in a loss of almost one third of that workforce. Without the "recovery" creating an increase in car sales, we actually lost manufacturing jobs over the course of his presidency.
Ideology is a real enemy. "Facts are sticky things." It would be nice of the academics and spin doctors would remember that the correct word for this level of "spin" is propaganda.
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