When no one knows the truth, it's easy to get away with lying...

Yes, see how it`s spiraling out of control? See how much it`s
growing? Higher and higher all the time? Yes, no. Actually, down is not
up. Night is not day, and the deficit is getting smaller. It`s dropped by
hundreds of billions of dollars during Barack Obama`s presidency.

We are currently experiencing the fastest deficit reduction in several
generations, and nobody knows it. We`re in the midst of a major national
crisis, self-imposed, brought on by fear and loathing and worry and outrage
over the supposed state of the deficit, and 90 percent of the country is
wrong about what the state of the deficit is. I`m not saying 90 percent as
a made-up rounded hyperbolic number. That's the actual number.

Look. "Bloomberg News" just polled on this: Is it your sense this
year that the deficit is getting bigger or getting smaller or staying about
the same as last year? Sixty-two percent of Americans say the deficit is
getting bigger, 28 percent of Americans say the deficit is staying about
the same. Yes, those 62 plus 28, that`s 90 percent of the country that
gives a wrong answer to that question.

So how many Americans know the right answer? A proportion of the
American public who knows the correct answer, which is that the deficit is
getting smaller is 6 percent, total.

If we are supposedly so worried about this problem that we are willing
to inflict pretty big economic pain on the country starting on Friday in
order to strike a symbolic pose of seriousness in addressing this awful
problem, wouldn`t you think that more than 6 percent of people in the
country should be able to correctly identify what the problem is?

THANK YOU RACHEL FOR ALWAYS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!