SKEPTICS AND DENIERS

I'm not big on conspiracy theories. I believe, for example, that the U.S. really landed a man on the moon. I don't think that the film of the landing was shot in the Arizona desert. I think that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I don't think that FDR allowed Pearl Harbor to be attacked, just to get into WWII. I don't think that Bush stole the election from Gore. (However, everyone knows that Mayor Daley stole the election for JFK in 1960.) I don't believe that the U.S. government was complicit in the 9-11 attacks, or that the Jews were behind it. I believe that the Rosenbergs were guilty as sin. The Holocast is not a hoax. There was no UFO at Roswell.
There is only one thing in history I'm not sure about. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson might have actively tried to throw the 1919 World Series. I hope it ain't so, but I don't know.
Conspiracy theories abound. For every true believer you can name, there is a skeptic or denier. I am always among them. This goes for global warming being a "man-caused" phenomenon. It also goes for the claim that President Obama's stimulus package created a single, solitary job. Or "saved" one. Nor do I believe for a second that the stimulus package prevented a national economic melt-down or prevented a second Great Depression as the president asserted yesterday.
I'm skeptical about any numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I have no faith in the numbers released by the Obama administration regarding the U.S. GDP. I find it odd that our economy can be growing while energy consumption and gasoline prices are not increasing. Shell and Chevron have both reduced personnel, citing low demand as the reason. That make any sense to you?
What really bothers me, as a denier and a skeptic, is that the true believers think that I am stupid or crazy. President Obama has no patience for those that think the stimulus package has been an overall bust, or that Cash For Clunkers was idiotic. Now we go on to his "Jobs" bill, which is nothing more than another stimulus bill we can't afford. Does anyone think an employer will be motivated to hire an employee for $40,000 a year just to get a $5000 tax credit? Not lately.
I just don't believe a word of it.