Isn't it amazing how much better you understand some of this suff if you know how business works! I have a pretty useless business degree myself, but it's great to have learned how things work in the market.
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Originally Posted by Anarky
What certainly doesn't help is the American tendency to overexaggerate everything to the point where they essentially parodying their own standpoint. There's this video going around of a single mother complaining to an opponent of the healthcare thing in public. And she's holding her son and uses language "as heard on TV." She's a farce who once had a valid point and thought she'd illustrate it by being an overdramatic cow. She didn't even get to the point where she could have gotten her point across because the way she presented it was too ridiculous.
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I know exactly what you're talking about. The media has a knack for finding the most rediculous people to illustrate their slant in the debate. I see the most rediculous sounding supporters of the plan played 24/7 on Fox news and the most evil portrayals of people who are against it on CNN. I get so tired of it that I literally change the channel or leave the room when they interview someone on the debate.
It seems like lately that anything attached to Obama gets blown out of proportion, no matter what it is, before it happens, only to disappear completely once he's finished whatever it was and everyone sees it was a non-issue.
case in point, the education speech. OMG. i have never seen so many people get so up in arms over a presidential speech. "I'm keeping my kids home from school!" "He's trying to brain wash our kids into accepting a liberal agenda!"
Holy crap people! Most school age kids haven't developed the brain maturation needed to understand political concepts (this happens around age 14-16 BTW....the ability to understand abstract concepts) How can they be brainwashed?
Then the speech happens and it is the most benign "stay in school, you need education to achieve your goals" thing you have ever heard in your life. now it's a non issue.
He (Obama) has been made out to be such a demon that almost everythign he does is met with such negative propoganda and anger that it seems like nothing will ever get done.
I just get so angry. If people would just learn for two seconds to think for themselves instead of regurgitating all the crap on TV....take time to look at the facts. THE REAL FACTS. Read the healthcare bill. I did! THEN make your judgements.