You know, the ones that went like this:

People who come from Truthylvania only tell the truth. People who come from Falsaria only tell lies. Joe says, “I am from Truthylvania.” Jim says, “Joe is lying.” You know that one of them is from Truthylvania and one is from Falsaria. Which is which?

Yes, I know that you can’t tell from the information I’ve given you. I’m simply reminded of such logic problems by President Obama’s cries for an “honest” debate untainted by “willful misrepresentations and outright distortions.”

Because, you see, people from Falsaria say they’re from Truthylvania. Obama is one of the worst.

Let’s examine “death panels,” one of the biggest flashpoints in the healthcare “reform” discussion. Obama denies that any such panels would exist under a “reformed” system, that bureaucrats would not be deciding whether Grandma gets to live or die. All the liberals I know call anyone who talks about such panels “crazy.”

But the truth is that there must be rationing under a government system. It has to happen! First, it has to happen because it is simply not possible to give everyone all the health care they want. Why isn’t this patently obvious? There isn’t enough money in the world to satiate unlimited demand of any commodity! Second, it has to happen because the government will inevitably impose more regulations and controls once it becomes involved (or, rather, more involved than it already is), and this will depress supply. A shortage is the inevitable result. So there has to be rationing, as even liberal Peter Singer has acknowledged. As Stephen Borque beautifully puts it, it is not a misnomer to call such rationing “death panels” — what else would you call it when bureaucrats are making decisions about who gets health care and who does not? Maybe it won’t be rationing of end-of-life care — after all, the AARP is a powerful lobby indeed. But if it’s not geriatric medicine, it will have to be something else, whether that something else is sophisticated medical imaging that could catch cancers early but is deemed too expensive by the government, a breakthrough drug that saves a life at fifty times the cost of a generic that can only delay death by a month or two, etc.

So that’s just one example of how liberals are lying to us and calling it truth. Don’t let liberal smears of “misrepresentation” and “fabrication” keep you from examining the facts and making your own evaluation. No matter how many times a liar says he’s telling the truth and that everyone else is lying, he’s still a liar — and the facts will show whom you should believe.

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