Someone please explain to me why we should continue to fall for the media and Congress' tricks by?

[Mr. Smartypants]

So what you're saying is that we should only listen to the news when it's bad news? Or maybe just when a Democrat is in the White House. I mean everyone believed Bush for this first six years in office, bragging that the economy was soaring, growing by leaps and bounds, right? But when Obama says that it's a lie?

If you listen to the news over a period of years you realize that both good and bad news are temporary. Longer-term trends are hardly ever reported, partly because nobody wants to hear how the economy is doing over the last 5 or 10 years, or predictions for the next 5 or 10 years. ALL news should be taken with a grain of salt anyway. But it's curious that people repeat and justify news they WANT to hear, and conservatives don't want to hear good news these days.