TurquoiseB wrote: > It's really fascinating being in the United States as > this momentous bill passes. It's even more fascinating > being stuck in a hotel room working and, contrary to my > normal habits, watching the 'pundits' on the TV news > melt down over this. > > FOX has gone bull goose loony. There is not even the > pretense of "fair and balanced." It's pure propaganda, > verging on hate crime. If they're not "preaching to the > camera" quoting polls that don't exist, they're playing > "lead the witness" by trying to put words into the > mouths of anyone they interview who is even slightly > in favor of the bill. > > It's like watching Off or Shemp melt down when something > they believe could never happen happens. But on TV.
I had C-SPAN on one of the computers here for the last couple hours of the debate while I was doing some work. It was incredible what the subspecies called "Republicans" (shitheads is more like it). spewed out of their gullets. Many were chanting something though we need to hold them to the next time a war spending bill comes up: "the government is bankrupt." Never seem to have heard them say that any other time. As far as I can tell I have no horse in this race because by the time most of this kicks in I'll be on Medicare. I haven't looked over everything but my current plan with the Anthem-Blue Cross crooks is a high deductible and if it were to kick in immediately would they require me to pay a lower deductible plan and I just wouldn't participate. I'm seriously considering leaving the country anyway as the populace is too dumb and gets what it deserves, that is if the US survives at all. We could easily wind up in a "road warrior" world with local war lords running things. But they've programmed the non-thinking populace (about 80%) into fearing the word "socialism" but ask any of them to define it and they can't. Capitalism is a Frankenstein Monster that has gone out of control and destroying the world. We need to capture it and put it out of its misery.
