From the official State of the Union transcript... Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades. An entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech startup, and did her part to add to the more than eight million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years. An autoworker fine-tuned some of the best, most fuel-efficient cars in the world, and did his part to help America wean itself off foreign oil. holy. crap. Three unbelievably blatant lies/misrepresentations in the first four sentences!! 1). According to the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the US ranked... 26th in math 21st in science 17th in reading This has been part of a consistent downward trend that has lasted for the past FORTY YEARS. 2). When the Bureau of Labor Statistics U-6 metric is adjusted to include long-term discouraged workers (defined out of existence by the government in 1994), the combined unemployment rate is nearly TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT. (Unemployment only averaged about 23% during the HEIGHT of the GREAT DEPRESSION). 3). Take a look at the list of the top 15 most fuel efficient cars in mass production... Model - US MPG Fiat 500 1.3 JTD Multijet 16V - 56 VW Golf 1.6 TDI BlueMotion - 57 Skoda Fabia 1.4 TDI GreenLine - 57 Opel Corsa 1.3 CDTI ecoFlex CO2 Pack - 57 Audi A3 1.6 TDI Attraction - 57 Toyota iQ 1.4 D-4D - 59 Renault Twingo 1.5 dCi Rip Curl - 59 Volvo S40 / V50 1.6D DRIVe Start/Stop - 60 Volvo C30 1.6D DRIVe Start/Stop - 60 Toyota Prius 1.8 Hybrid - 60 Mini One D DPF - 60 VW Polo 1.6 TDI BlueMotion - 64 Seat Ibiza 1.4 TDI Ecomotive - 64 Ford Fiesta 1.6 TDCi ECOnetic - 64 smart fortwo coupé 0.8 cdi pure softip - 69 Notice anything about this list? Thats right...NONE OF THESE ARE US MARKET CARS...AND DUE TO OIL INDUSTRY KICKBACKS TO OUR LAWMAKERS, THEY >NEVER< WILL BE. Lies, falsehoods and misrepresentations designed to lull and placate the masses while our world is ripped out from under us by the elite... THIS, ladies and gentleman... is the TRUE state of the nation.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:13:36 +0000
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