Sunday, October 26, 2025

Some More Major Government and Political Lies Over The Decades - Part 2

 In our last post we discussed some major lies and myths that politicians and government politicians have dumped on Americans over the past couple of decades in areas of government health insurance, covid, global warming, and Tylenol. In the process of researching those lies I  came across a very interesting article on the Net, "Doomsday Addiction: Celebrating 50 Years of Failed Climate Predictions.” The writer Chris Bennett, did a great job of tracking down the failed predictions and/or climate lies of politicians and  other liberals over the past five decades.

The whole  article can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.agweb.com/opinion/doomsday-addiction-celebrating-50-years-failed-climate-predictions

Highlights of his research and article are summarized below:

1)Paul Erlich, Author, Part 1, author of the "Population Bomb” - 1968 - The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…”

2)Paul Erlich, Part 2 - 1968 -  “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

3)Paul Erlich, Part 3 - 1970 - “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

4)George Wald, Nobel Prize Winner - 1970 -  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

5)Kenneth Watt - 1970 - “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

6)James  Lodge,  Researcher - 1970 - “Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century if population continues to grow and earth’s resources are consumed at the present rate…”

7)The Guardian - 1974 - “Spy Satellites Show New Ice Age is Coming Fast.”

8)Newsweek - 1975 -  “The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.”

8)New York Times, 1978 - “An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.”

Uh, never  mind, forget global  cooling, only one year later global warming became all  the trend:

9)New York Times - 1979 - “Climatologists Are Warned North Pole Might Melt.  There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate.”

10)Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN’s Environmental Program - 1980 - “An environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”

11)Associated Press - 1989 - “A senior UN environmental official (Noel Brown) says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

12)Al Gore - 2006 - If drastic measures were not taken in 2006 then by 2016, ten years later, the planet would experience an irreversible “point of no return.”

13)Laurent Fabius, French foreign  minister - 2014 - “We have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”

14)Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Congresswoman with a business degree and absolutely no expertise on climate issues - 2019 - “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it? And, like, this is the war—this is our World War ll.”

This is a short sample of what is in the article referenced above. But all of it can summarized as follows:

The world will end because of global  cooling, the world will end because of global  warming, hundreds of millions of people will starve to  death every year, we will all die in a puff of blue steam, entire nations will be  flooded into extinction by 2000, the North Pole is expanding, the  North Pole will melt, crops will not grow because of cooling, crops will not grow because of warming.

After  while, after the global cooling falsehoods, the global warming falsehoods, the global  famine falsehoods, the covid falsehoods, the Tylenol falsehoods, the government health insurance falsehoods, the Kennedy assassination coverups, the Biden dementia coverups, one cannot help but get a little skeptical about what anyone in the political class and government agencies, along with their so-called experts, have to say. Their track  record of honesty and accuracy speaks for itself: it stinks.

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Some Major Government and Politician Lies Over The Past Two Decades

 A number of recent news events raised the topic in my mind of government employees and politicians and the lies they create, perpetuate, and force on the country. These lies cover economic, medical, and environmental  lies. They are put forth with straight faces by those telling them, raising that age old question: do these folks actually believe the lies they tell or do they think we are too stupid to find out and understand if their assertions are true or not?

Let’s check out the latest lies and myths that they have  floated over the years:

1)Let’s go back to the days when Obama Care was being developed and passed as legislation. Remember when those of us that expressed our doubts about how that legislation would not resolve the country’s health care issues were met with some very vicious and demeaning rebuttals to our views:

  • Democrat Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi called opponents to Obama Care unpatriotic for simply having a difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington including herself.

  • Democrat Charles Rangel slandered millions of ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by calling them racists for simply having an honest difference of opinion with many politicians in Washington.

  • Democrat Shelia Lee Jackson slandered ordinary Americans who opposed Obama Care by associating them with the Ku Klux Klan,

  • Democrat Alan Grayson called those opposed to Obama Care  knuckle dragging Neanderthals.

Let’s fast forward to today:

  • According to a recent large-scale survey from the Kaiser Foundation, health care costs in the past year were up 6% after rising 7% in each of the two previous years.

  • All of these increases were larger than the overall inflation rate and the growth in wages in those years.

  • Thus, it does not look like Obama Care’s objective to “bend the cost curve downwards" was not met if the rate of health care spending and costs are rising faster than inflation and wage growth.

  • About 25-26 million Americans do  not currently have  health insurance coverage according to an analysis by the Kaiser Foundation.

  • Thus, another Obama promise, that EVERY American would be  able to get and afford health insurance under Obama Care,  has proven to be false.

It appears that those of that were called  unpatriotic, racists, KKK members,  and knuckle dragging Neanderthals for simply having doubts about a government program actually turned out to be right: costs have  not gone down, coverage has not gone up, and things are getting worse since part of the current government shutdown is because the failure of Obama Care is requiring more and  more taxpayer subsidies to stay afloat.  

In other words, those that supported Obama Care lied to us and used derision, and  insults to cover up their lies.  The problem is very simple: Obama tried to implement an economic based solution to a public health problem, using a hammer  when he should have been using a screwdriver, it was doomed from the start. 

The underlying problem with high health care  costs in this country involves a number of factors: Americans eat too much, they eat too much of the wrong types of food, they do not exercise enough, and they smoke too much. By not fixing  those underlying causes you cannot fix the overall cost problem. 

Consider the informed  opinion of Dr. Delose Cosgrove, formerly the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic:

  • In our current health care industry there is no incentive for staying well.

  • Obesity in America accounts for 10% of all health care costs.

  • Smoking, diet, and lack of exercise, according to Dr. Cosgrove, contribute to  40% of premature deaths in this country, 70% of chronic diseases such as heart disease, and accounts for 75% of the nation's total health care.

Thus, the American public was led astray down the faux Obama Care path: it did not resolve any of the health care issues facing the country despite the ravings of Democrats. But we knew this back in 2010 when we predicted exactly what would happen if Obama Care passed:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=Cleveland+clinic

Which brings us full  circle back to the above hypothesis: were politicians of that timeframe too stupid to know they were not going to resolve anything or did they know but thought we were too stupid to question their assertions?

2)The Trump administration raised some hackles, mostly with liberals and Democrats, several months ago when they asserted that pain reliever Tylenol may have negative impacts if taken by pregnant women, specifically that there might be a link between  Tylenol consumption during pregnancy and autism. However, it appears that various government people and politicians actually  knew for a long  time that there was at least a hazy connection between using Tylenol and causing autism:

  • Apparently, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had in its possession scientific reviews from 2016, 2019 and 2022 along with two memos from two different divisions within the FDA that warned of a possible link between Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism.

  • None of this information was shared with the public or doctors, specifically pregnant Americans regarding the potential danger of taking Tylenol.

  • In late 2016, FDA senior medical  officer, Adrew Mosholder, finished his review of eight studies, with seven showing at least an association between Tylenol like products and attention deficits, delayed motor skill development, and autistic behaviors.

  • He recommended that the FDA issue a warning that Tylenol should be used rarely if at all  given that there was possibly some kind of link between usage and autism, a recommendation that was not heeded.

We could go on with further examples over time when the FDA lied about what might be going on with Tylenol but took no action but you get the idea: the government  sat on information that may have negatively impacted an untold number of American families. By lying in this case, we are assuming not telling the truth or sharing available information is the same as lying. 

The complete history of this negligence can be found at the following link:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/21/fda-stayed-silent-potential-tylenol-risks-internal-reports/


3)Let’s stay in the medical field for this classic quote dropped on the American  public by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s lead point man  on the covid epidemic:

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health and that of the family but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

Let’s be honest, it did not quite work out that way:

  • I had the first two vaccination doses and still  got covid … twice.

  • My wife got the first two vaccinations and booster shots and got covid.

  • A good friend of mine got the first two vaccinations and all of the booster shots and caught covid four times.

  • I could go on and on about my personal experiences with friends and family that got the vaccines and boosters and still got the virus.

I would bet anyone reading this also can tell stories of how the Fauci promise above was either wrong, a trait you do not want in a person in charge of the nation’s health, or he was lying, knowing full well  that the vaccine was basically useless for everyone except drug companies that got rich on taxpayer wealth.

4)On last example for today:

  • I have  lived in Florida for twenty years and have had my share of hurricanes.

  • During that time, I and millions of others were constantly told by politicians and  government  scientists and agencies that global  warming would make those hurricanes more frequent, more intense, and more  destructive unless we surrendered trillions of tax dollars and personal freedom to prevent the impending weather disasters.

  • People like Al Gore got even more famous and wealthier by predicting that dire climate changes will  increase the  severity of hurricanes and other bad weather.

  • Barack Obama agreed to a multi-national climate agreement that was created at a Paris climate summit during his term to combat the growing threat of catastrophic weather and its increasing frequency, all of which would require American taxpayers to pay more for every type of energy.

But guess what: in 2025, two decades after  Hurricane Katrina kicked off a hand-wringing epidemic  across the country by global warming advocates, my state of Florida experienced absolutely no hurricanes this year. No hurricanes, no tropical depressions, no tropical  storms ... nothing. And it was not like we had any near misses either. No weather disruptions at all.

Which brings us back to the old question: did politicians and other government officials really believe that we were headed for climate disaster when they asked to  control  our lives and wealth in the name of global warming or did they just want to control  our lives and think we were too stupid to understand they were leading us on?

Which brings us full circle to the reality that government officials and politicians are wrong or lying more often than they are right or telling the truth. In the meantime, our taxes, our lives and our futures can change  dramatically for the wrong reason: did these folks actually believe the information they were espousing or did they think we were too stupid to understand they were lying?

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