TV is a wonderful invention, but it has its drawbacks much like many other of our modern conveniences. The part of TV I dislike most of all is the lack of intervention. One can watch or one can turn the channel or one can turn the thing off and go about their every day lives making progress with self improvement or interacting with other people. You cannot make a TV listen to you no matter how loud you scream or yell. Those talking will continue to say whatever they they wish to say without listening to anything you continue to yell. Thats one of the inconveniences I mentioned above.
Today the political ramblings of the Sunday talk shows went across the wires right on cue. The same old lies from the same old people once again made their um-teenth rounds while the same old watchers sat frustrated screaming the same old screams for the um-teenth time with the same old results. Lies are rampart on TV talk shows because those doing the interviewing share a political point of view either with or against the one being interviewed. Once you have this alliance then what you get is either what you want to hear or what you know you will hear, but undoubtedly you will not hear the exact facts whatever is being discussed.
This boils down to what type person you are. There are basically two categories of politicians; Conservatives and Liberals, and basic attitudes are formed about most all of the choices we make as human beings in this country. A question was asked today about raising the price of Liability on drilling which is already at some seventy-five Million dollars. The liberal said we need to have a much higher price because we need to have rich companies drilling so they would be able to pay in case of these accidents. The Conservative said, You need to keep the price reasonable otherwise you will only have rich companies drilling and then you have fewer chances for there to be fair competition. Plus you end up with Government coming in and having to subsidize some of the smaller companies and you will end up with bribery taking place so the little guy can come in to drill.
Two philosophies, two political parties, two types of TV watchers, and still no way to scream loud enough for the lying bastards to hear you.
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