Washington Can't Meet the Cheerios Standard

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I think it's time we applied the same advertising standards to Washington's legislative products that the feds apply to breakfast foods. The Food and Drug Administration rapped General Mills this week for making misleading claims about the benefits of Cheerios. The food manufacturer says the whole-grain O's are "clinically proven to lower cholesterol." The FDA demanded packaging changes to ensure truth in labeling.

Well, how about the bogus marketing of the fiscal "stimulus"? President Obama and the Democrats promoted the trillion-dollar package as job creation salvation. The White House claims 150,000 jobs have been "created or saved." But since February, the nation has lost more than 1.3 million jobs. The current 8.9 percent unemployment rate in the wake of the stimulus passage is worse than the 8.8 percent unemployment Obama's economists darkly predicted if Congress didn't immediately adopt their recovery plan.

Michelle Malkin : Washington Can't Meet the Cheerios Standard - Townhall.com

Truth from politicians?