Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Economy Debate and fact checking

Well, after almost sleeping through another debate ( Is it a debate when everyone takes the same side? Everyone there agrees: No regulations for businesses, get rid of the Fed  chief or the Fed totally, President Obama is to blame if the sun doesn't shine through the clouds), I just want to add one thing that would make the debates more exciting; Instant Fact Check. When a candidate or most of the candidates makes a statement that's a lie, a buzzer goes off and they are confronted with their lie. The Dodd-Frank Act was to blame for the Collapse of 2008? Someone who was on that stage last night explain to me how a collapse that happened in 2008 can be caused by a piece of legislation that was enacted in 2010, and wasn't even debated or brought up in Congress until December 2009. Is there a time machine the government has that I don't know about? You can have different ideas about what you want the country to look like and how it runs, but when you lie so easily about something so easy to check, I don't question your ability to be President, I know you don't have the ability to be President.

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