I don't know if it is just that I have been paying more attention to politics or that things are getting very scary in this country. There are states that are taking bargaining rights away from people and in a couple of states they are doing everything to stop women's reproductive rights.
While the people in Washington are dysfunctional and can't do anything,the states, led by conservative governors, are instituting their own ideological leanings into law.
Governor Brownback of Kansas has signed in a ridiculous and probably unlawful law into effect with some really bazaar regulations to ban abortion in Kansas. There is the our governor in Maine who had a mural in the labor department removed because he said it was anti business with out ever seeing the mural.
And things like these are happening all over the U.S.. I was never into conspiracy's but you could make a case that something is going on. I just watched a documentarie on HBO called "Hot Coffee". It is the story behind the McDonald's coffee scalding and other cases that pushed the tort-reform movement. It is a real eye opener, in that the money behind tort reformed comes from very big company's like Exxon and DuPont. And what was most chilling was that their efforts to remove progressive judges and replacing them with conservative judges, who in 99 percent of the time rule in the side of the these large company's, who provided money for their elections through organizations like the the US Chamber of Commerce.
And with the 24 hour a day propaganda machine Fox, people are getting the mesage that the right wants out there and it is reinforced everyday on Fox. To me things are getting a little scary. What do you think?
Here is John Stewert at 4:46 in the clip, clearly explaining what Fox does so well.
2 comments:
As someone who works in the insurance industry, I can tell you w/ certainty that the industry will review/cull all the biggest, most ludicrous (or seemingly ludicrous) punitive awards for the year and then publish them under the guise of "Can You Believe It?" The authors wont say they work or are funded by the insurance industry. They'll feed the stats and jury-award information to seemingly neutral reporters and journalists for the sole purpose of creating indignation and anger amongst the population. But as you saw by the McDonalds coffee case--oftentimes there's a lot more to these cases then what you've been told. If I'm free to buy a gun, drink booze; and drive a car (though not in that order), can't I decide what I want to award one of my fellow citizens who's been seriously injured? Isn't forcing a cap taking a right away from me, which Repubs supposedly hate?
You've got it Lodo. We are all slowly but surly being manipulated by the people with the money. They plead for tax cuts for the rich, as the middle class is disappearing.They make it seem the whole economy will collapse if Mr.Moneybags has to pay taxes.
It was funny, you hit it on the head. The film said the same thing about what is fed to the populous about these rewards.
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