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children that they have been urged to let their children be diagnosed as autistic, in order to get either government money or insurance money to pay for language prob- lems, I am not the least bit surprised by Sperry’s findings. Every dollar spent on children falsely labelled


THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 14, 2012


autistic is a dollar lost — and urgently needed — in dealing with the severe problems of genu- inely autistic children. But money added to the federal budget for autism is money that can be given to people, in the expecta- tion of getting their vote at election time. Another example of


words substituting for realities was a front page story in the May 24th is- sue of USA Today, showing that the official statistics on the national debt only count about one-fourth of what the federal govern- ment actually owes. Even the staggering of-


ficial national debt is liter- ally not half the story. Under ordinary account-


ing rules and laws, the money promised to people as pensions when they retire has to be counted as part of the debts of a


business or other orga- nization. But, since Con- gress makes the laws, the trillions of dollars owed to people who have paid into Social Security do not have to be counted as part of the federal govern- ment’s debts. When you or I owe mon-


ey, we are in debt — and face consequences if we don’t pay up. But we are not the federal govern- ment and cannot write our own accounting laws. Perhaps the biggest frauds committed by re-


defining words are the many fraudulent uses of the word “poor.” For most of the history


of the human race, there was no problem in defin- ing who were “the poor.” They were people without enough to eat, often with- out adequate clothing to protect them from the ele- ments, and usually people who lived packed in like sardines in living quarters without adequate ventila- tion in the summer or ad- equate heat in the winter, and perhaps also lacking in such things as electric- ity or adequate sewage disposal. Today, most of the offi-


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cially defined “poor” have none of these problems, and most today have ame- nities such as air condi- tioning, a car or truck, a microwave oven and many other things that once defined a middle class lifestyle. Americans in poverty today have more living space than the aver- age European. Why are they called “poor” then? For the same reason that autism, the national debt and many other things are redefined in completely misleading ways — name- ly, to justify draining more money from the public in taxes, expanding the government, and allowing politicians to give hand- outs to people who are expected to vote for their reelection. If we keep buying it,


politicians will keep sell- ing it.


Thomas Sowell is a se-


nior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni- versi ty, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndi- cate columnists and car- toonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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