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WAIT WHAT pt. 3

Posted by MGK  Published in WTF, Politics

This year’s Republican Party platform includes support for abolishing adjusting for inflation when accounting for the federal budget.

In short: the Republican Party officially wants to pretend that inflation doesn’t exist.

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Zifnab said on September 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am

They have now literally made “Lying to the American People” a plant in their party platform. Just… wow.

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chenry said on September 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am

Well, if you’re going to lie all the time, you might as well make it official. It’s the responsible thing to do.

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karellan said on September 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am

How can you… but… do you mean… they’re SERIOUSLY… hAviNg mAj0r 5tr0kE rIte nAo

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Katherine Farmar said on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am

Do… do they have it in for satirists or something? How can satirists work when the Republican Party is stealing all their best material?

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keith said on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 am

Tim Pawlenty (who I wouldn’t be too shocked to see back on the McCain ticket, the way things are shaping up) has made this a cornerstone in his governance of Minnesota. He’s been denying the existence of inflation in state budgets for two terms now.

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Zenrage said on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 am

Why not? The Republican gun humpers already want to pretend that escalation doesn’t exist.

Sounds to me like they want to rid themselves of anything that might have a liberal bias… including reality.

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NCallahan said on September 3rd, 2008 at 3:25 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA — fuck.

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Randy B. said on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:29 pm

Gah, that’s it. I’m moving to Canada!

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Evan said on September 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm

*blinks*

This is blasphemy. This is madness!

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Lister Sage said on September 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Madness?! THIS. IS. SPARTA! (I have no shame.)

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Eric S. Smith said on September 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pm

The famous Reagan-era dodge was to redefine inflation so that — entirely by coincidence, of course — there wasn’t any. So this is both wrong and essentially an old idea.

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