Controversial op-ed: All I want for Christmas is the truth about America

... No sane person could honestly say that what has happened to our society over the last 40 years, and particularly in the last five years, is normal.

But somehow, those in power have convinced the masses that $1.2 trillion deficits, 0% interest rates, declining real wages, the highest average gas prices in history, pre-emptive wars, policing the world, and buying rubber dog shit produced in China with a credit card is normal and beneficial to our economy.

... Abraham Lincoln once said that he believed in the people and that if you told them the truth and gave them the cold hard facts, they would meet any crisis.

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