Well, if you want to own me . . .Originally Posted by Bull_Nuts
Anyway, the whole point of my post is that you can't tell what's going on with this situation (or most situations, really) just from listening to one biased group of politicians. Sometimes you're just as lost when you listen to two sides of a situation, because a lot of times, neither tribe of "true beleivers" has a clue. And then you have to look for alternative explanations, or go digging around for your own answers.
You and I can hurl invectives at each other for weeks and months on end, and keep on at it until the earth opens up underneath us and swallows up whole. That won't resolve anything. Tossing theories or allegations or idiotic BS that we hear on AM talk radio won't help much either.
I get the impression that all of us here on this board, liberal and conservative and moderate and wackos alike, are all being played by Washington insiders. Non-elected folks far outnumber our elected representatives, and it is they who really run the show in Washington. Lobbyists, lawyers, special interest groups, fund raisers, bureaucrats interested in keeping their jobs, officials interested in expanding their control, newspeople who treat their profession as entertainment for fools instead of what it should be.
The unhappy consequence of all this is
you and I and other folks get focused on these "small potato" issues (this one counts for a few million $$$) and our attention is diverted away from the billions and trillions that the big multi-national corporations pocket. We end up paying more and more and more in taxes while you and I try to figure out what a couple of bottom-level clerks said.
We're really screwed, y'know it? We don't focus enough on the big stuff. We don't really know who's doing what, or who's paying who to get some media star to say about current issues. They are yanking our chains, and we are dancing the way they want us to.
You may think that I'm screwed because I'm gay,
but I assure you, we both are.
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