Lies, Damned Lies, and Municipal Budgets
Trust the Government? A July 23 news article leads with the statement: WESTON — Weston trustees Monday approved a $6.7 million police headquarters minutes after one trustee said she felt completely misled about the need for the building. In a comment on Nextdoor, a woman seemed a bit disillusioned upon hearing that the Weston Village president Mark Maloney effectively lied about the upcoming need to build a new police HQ, just to avoid opposition to approval of a police department merger. I hate to break the news to her and anyone else, but governments do lie . They lie to the public and as we have seen here they lie to each other. At the federal level the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2013 , was passed allowing domestic (that's you) propagandization by the federal government. You think you are hearing "news"that we are winning the war, you think you are hearing "the science" about Covid vacines, but you won't ...