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Bosworth Preaches Fiscal Discipline to Edison MS Students, Gets Facts Wrong

Last updated on 2015.01.19

For your amusement, fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth lectures sixth graders about personal and fiscal responsibility.

We need to elect fiscally responsible people. We need leaders that have the ability to have the tough statements that say "no we don't need that" or "we can't afford that." I have kids. It's no fun and it's hard to tell them that we can't afford things. But it's that same discipline that's needed by our leaders and to say we have to start saying no [Annette Bosworth, responding to sixth graders' questions on national debt, Facebook video, 2014.01.19].

This message of fiscal discipline comes from Annette Bosworth, who says no to her employees when pay day comes.

Annette Bosworth, who says no to the bank when it's time to pay her mortgage and thus loses three properties to foreclosure.

Annette Bosworth, who says no to raffle ticket holders who ask for refunds of their thousand-dollar tickets when Bosworth fails to draw for the promised prize.

Annette Bosworth, who says no to the Senate Ethics Committee when it asks for a timely, accurate, or comprehensible financial disclosure statement.

Bosworth's video for Edison Middle Schoolers is filled with so many other lies and inaccuracies that I should call the school and ask for equal time to keep the kids from flunking social studies. Bosworth recycles the daily disproven zombie claim that hyperinflation is right around the corner and misdates Weimar Germany after World War 2. Bosworth claims China holds the majority of the national debt (not even close: 8%). Bosworth claims last week's federal budget deal adds $1.1 trillion to the national debt (that's the total spending authorized for FY2014; the plan actually cuts the deficit by $23 billion). Bosworth claims that the Affordable Care Act is still being written and that its costs are unknown (but ignores the best data available that shows the ACA saves money and that Bosworth's preferred plan of repealing the ACA would make the debt worse).

Bosworth's national debt video teaches Edison Middle Schoolers just one thing: that words are meaningless when you are begging for campaign donations. Donors, show some discipline, and say no to Bosworth.

11 Comments

  1. Steve O'Brien 2014.01.21

    I think I would be happier if businesses, the pillars of our moral community, focused internally on applying a high moral code to how they compensate and care for their workers and their community and their environment rather than focusing externally on condemning those "unfit" or unworthy of their services.

  2. Steve O'Brien 2014.01.21

    Sorry, I must have clicked on the wrong comment box: above was intended for the SB 67 discussion.

  3. Nick Nemec 2014.01.21

    When will the attorney general investigate her scheme to bilk unsuspecting rubes out of their money, $1000 at a time, by pretending to raffle off farm land?

  4. caheidelberger Post author | 2014.01.21

    Steve, I'm amused by relevant your unintentional comment seemed. I'll move your text to the SB 67 discussion. :-)

  5. Jerry 2014.01.21

    Maybe Marty brought one of the tickets Nick, the winning one. Or so he thinks...

  6. Roger Cornelius 2014.01.21

    By all means, all South Dakota 6th graders should hear lady Bosworth lecture on fiscal responsibility, and than be taught to do the opposite of what she professes.

  7. Mark 2014.01.21

    Comedy Central material, right? The joke's on us.

  8. mike from iowa 2014.01.21

    Hope she explains trickle down economics,especially the part where you cut taxes to increase tax receipts. As a gardener,I could plow all that BS under the ground and make veggies grow better.

  9. Lanny V Stricherz 2014.01.21

    "We need to elect fiscally responsible people. We need leaders that have the ability to have the tough statements that say "no we don't need that" or "we can't afford that." I have kids. It's no fun and it's hard to tell them that we can't afford things."

    Maybe we should make videos of our children begging for money to pay for our Federal government and post them on youtube. Seems like that worked for the good Doctor, to get her and hubby to the Philippines.

  10. Jim 2014.01.22

    She should cut back on those $4 lattes and maybe her kids wouldn't have to skip their birthdays.

  11. grainofsalt 2014.01.22

    "Boz" and hubby Chad don't have a clue about numbers, period. Just looking at her facebook page is amusing. For example, did you know that Dr. "Boz" has 17 times more people talking about her than about Pope Francis (the most talked about and controversial Pope in memory) Chad creates 1,450,851 people who are talking about his wife (while the Pope has a mere 88,000) If you combine the numbers for President Clinton, Presidents Bush(2), President Obama, and God's man here on earth, Annette tops all of them combined !!! Illusions of Grandeur anyone?

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