No Such Thing as a Coincidence

Sorry for the intermittent nature of my posts lately.  Work has been seeping into the hours well after 5 and some bigs things have been happening in regards to my future plans.  Anyway, I was reading over this post on Richochet by Dave Carter and came to this paragraph:

The administration has stated that, "Narrowing the income gap is essential for ensuring social justice and harmony. We need to raise income levels of the poor and adjust taxes on the excessively wealthy." The reality: That statement was made by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, in accordance with principles of the Communist Party of China and, by inference, with those of Karl Marx. Yet it reads like a Barack Obama speech or the Democratic National Committee's platform. Coincidence or a common cause? 

And then there's this:

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, (D-CA) warned that sequestration would cost some 170 million American jobs. Result: We learn that there are only 135 million to 143 million jobs to be had in America. Coincidence or a typical appeal to her constituents?

There's always been the tendency of those in the elected branches to, both publicly but much more privately, thumb their noses at the electorate and lament the stupidity and idiocy of the calls and letters that stream into their offices.  Civic education in this country undoubtedly needs to improve by leaps and bounds, but the kind of pablum offered by Rep. Waters makes the kind of lamenting I described above a self-fulfilling prophesy.