{"id":1735,"date":"2003-09-15T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T07:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/15\/just-another-day-of-lies\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:28:23","slug":"just-another-day-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/15\/just-another-day-of-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another day of lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Powers That Be that run this country (into the ground, apparently) don&#8217;t seem to be physically or psychologically capable of telling the truth anymore. The Nation&#8217;s David Corn takes a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/capitalgames\/index.mhtml?bid=3&amp;pid=949\" title=\"The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers\">&#8220;The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers&#8221;<\/a> today, including this from our Dear Leader&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  September is back-to-school time, and Bush hit the road to promote his education policies. During a speech at a Nashville elementary school, he hailed his education record by noting that &#8220;the budget for next year boosts funding for elementary and secondary education to \\$53.1 billion. That&#8217;s a 26-percent increase since I took office. In other words, we understand that resources need to flow to help solve the problems.&#8221; A few things were untrue in these remarks. Bush&#8217;s proposed elementary and secondary education budget for next year is \\$34.9 billion, not \\$53.1 billion, according to his own Department of Education. It&#8217;s his total proposed education budget that is \\$53.1 billion. More importantly, there is no next-year &#8220;boost&#8221; in this budget. Elementary and secondary education received \\$35.8 billion in 2003. Bush&#8217;s 2004 budget cuts that back nearly a billion dollars, and the overall education spending in his budget is the same as the 2003 level. Instead of a &#8220;boost,&#8221; there is the opposite&#8211;a decrease. Perhaps like Rumsfeld&#8211;and Cheney and Wolfowitz&#8211;the president merely was overstating.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_09_14.html#001073\" title=\"Lies and the lying liars who lie lie lie lie lie\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Powers That Be that run this country (into the ground, apparently) don&#8217;t seem to be physically or psychologically capable of telling the truth anymore. The Nation&#8217;s David Corn takes a look at &#8216;The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers&#8217; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}