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Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Manufacturing Lies
Manufacturing lies continue to the be the go-to rhetoric by politicians not wanting to pay the electoral price of telling the truth.
The line between buzzwords & platitudes and outright lies is never thinner, fuzzier, or more traversed than when it comes to American politicians telling manufacturing lies. While not being fully sure what Ciss Jami has in mind when he quipped “when a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie” but it sure does apply to politically unpopular truths.
Our current president is not the first and will not be the last to spout manufacturing lies as soundbite fodder. To be fair to President Biden, 50 years into his political career, saying “we’re bringing back manufacturing” or some adjacent sentiment comes out as easy as the “God love you” and “My father always told me, Joey” staples of his rhetorical repertoire. Back in September of 2022, The Washington Post bestowed two Pinocchio’s onto the President’s “flimsy claim he has the ‘strongest’ manufacturing jobs record,” mitigating further Pinocchio’s with extra credit for a “mitigating…but still misleading metric.” The latest version via President Biden’s official Twitter feed:
