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Massive support for Obama's social service agendas, through letter
writing, demonstrations, and grassroots websites, will help him to
reduce the enormously expensive subsidies, defense contracts, earmarks, and bailouts that are ravaging the public purse.
Finally, lying to the public by government officials should be regarded as seriously as perjury in a court of law. We should tolerate no dishonesty from those we entrust to conduct our business, and should lobby for criminal legislation against it.
A courageous President has taken on the shameful legacy of the Bush years.
He has invited, and desperately needs, a groundswell of public participation to put things right.
Finally, lying to the public by government officials should be regarded as seriously as perjury in a court of law. We should tolerate no dishonesty from those we entrust to conduct our business, and should lobby for criminal legislation against it.
A courageous President has taken on the shameful legacy of the Bush years.
He has invited, and desperately needs, a groundswell of public participation to put things right.
References:
1. Sissela Bok. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, Vintage, 1999.
2. The White House. Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. Subject: Transparency and Open Government. Undated.
3. Russ Baker. "What Obama Is Up Against," Truthout, November 2, 2009 http://www.truthout.org/11020910
4. BU Today, Mass., "The Return of Howard Zinn, and Company," October 29, 2009
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