the second half of the book

The second half of the book The 15 Biggert Lies in Politics by Major Garrett and Tim Penny deals with the remaining eight lies. The first lie is one that by 2013 we know is not true: the budget will be balanced by 2002. Garrett and Penny believe that 1998-2000 will be the most balanced the budget will be for a while. The next lie is Social Security is a sacred government trust. But it has functioned as it was designed to, and is reducing old age poverty. Medicare works. No, Medicare does not work. It is covered with fraud and the input cannot keep up with the output. Tax cuts are not good. New tax cuts and laws are an exercise in economic discrimination and they will not increase economic growth. More money in education will not wield better results. The nation is not educating children as well as it did 30 years ago despite all the money that has been put into education reform.

The environment its mother earth or mother load. Laws that protect the environment are the same ones that are keeping them from protected by tying up resources and preventing work to be done with useless litigations over the land. Republicans believe in smaller government. They do believe that the best government is the government that governs least but they are about shrinking the size of the government and they have not been trying to. Democrats are compassionate. This is no longer true, democrats are stuck in the past and have not been trying to build new working programs nor have they been able to make existing programs adapt to help the future.

Although I have little previous knowledge of the inner workings of government before reading this book, I still hold to my earlier claim of agreeing with the big picture ideas that are given, but it is hard to make a solid and educated opinion with only one resource, this book to go off of. My prediction that the second half will deal a lot with money was correct.