Where has honour and integrity gone
What makes it acceptable for blatant lies to be used with such impunity in our society? A Sydney paper has just said workers are struggling with a carbon tax, when there is no such tax, and a lobby group says businesses would be unfairly affected if they did not charge customers more than what the banks charge them for credit purchases. Both are examples of the straight out lies that are everywhere today. Much of the blame for the sad situation has to be directed to the fickle fools; that fairly large portion of the population who seems to have no ability to think critically. Blatant lies, such as “children overboard” and “weapons of mass destruction” should have seen the peddlers of falsehoods condemned, but instead were rewarded. You even have the current opposition leader admitting he tells lies at times, without him suffering as the consequence. Media moguls can encourage deceit and employ people to tell untruths and then reward them for doing so. In a good society all who deli