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Isn't it amazing? The government puts on all these shows. Their media tentacles help with the shows by hyping them royally and pumping up scare tactic headlines hourly. Take this new shenanigan called the war over the debt ceiling.
Now, that was not the amazing part I was referring to. What I meant by amazing was the public's response to all this nonsense baloney. The government is telling us to 'be afraid! Our food stamp program will no longer feed you, your Medicaid will no longer get you medicine, our airports will no longer remain operational, our homeland security guys won't be able to protect you against those boogey men terrorists who are hiding behind your sheds ... you are going to starve, suffer and most likely drop dead. So be afraid! We ain't got no money, and if we don't raise this debt ceiling and print more money, you all are gonna die!'
And our people, amazingly, buy into all this. They don't even look at the most obvious facts. Now isn't that amazing?!
I just finished reading news headlines geared to calm nerves in one particular area: Thou shalt not be afraid. Our military and foreign aid will continue pouring into our usual recipient nations. Hooray. Hooray. We'll continue to send them dollars and guns... in the billions. Hooray, hooray!
Who were they attempting to comfort and calm? I have no idea. Probably some nervous recipient(s) in some miserable country (s) out there. But most importantly, where the heck is the response to this here in our nation? Nowhere to be heard or seen. And what's up with that?! Come on, they are saying we are right now at this default line, with our current debt level in the trillions of dollars, with our unaccountable loony expenditures totally out of control, with our miserable unemployment reflecting the more miserable overall economy crashing down, yet we are going to send billions and billions of dollars to some nations out there. Yet not a peep from our zombie-turned majority.