Posted on 01/01/2017 9:02:54 AM PST by Rustybucket
The media and you, the disconnect we experience that confuses the speaker and dumbfounds the listener.
Sorry, I had paragraphs, spacing, and easy to read trails of thought that went away when I posted. I don’t post much and its evident. I hope you take the time to read this and give me your feedback.
Happy New Year
If you want this read you should give it another try. You can’t cut and paste it from some other document and still save formatting. I think this is what you did.
Nice effort.
Healthcare is a mess of the first order as are most other things. Too many takers, too few decent jobs a man can make a living at or costs just way too high.
Yes, it is insanity but it is done by intention. It is a meme by the media elites with a goal of liberal obfuscation.
This morning I experienced insanity.
Let me explain.
The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over, and expect a different outcome. Part of being an optimist, and in Design my entire life, is the knowledge that this axiom is not absolute.
In engineering, struggling against an obstacle that you have “not yet conquered” is a part of expanding your knowledge base, and becoming better at what you do. So doing something previously unsolved in an attempt to solve this problem. So, it’s NOT insanity, its persistence, dedication, and innovation. This is true in things where the elements of the solution are malleable, or able to be changed.
Watching the Sunday morning pundits, I was filled with hope that they will get smarter, will get in tune with the population that they try to impart knowledge to, and that they will, by themselves, listen and learn from those people they come before every Sunday.
This it seems, is an effort at futility, which I admit, brings me, like a moth to a flame before the boob tube each Sunday morning, always to be disappointed.
I listen to each of these pundits, moan incessantly that Trump does not like them, ignore them, and makes no attempt to understand them or meet them half way, and then proceed to show the viewing public WHY this is the case.
They take the listener down a conversation trail, pick any subject, and then insert invectives. The listener either buys, it and moves along, or in my case, is stopped dead in my tracks, so incensed by their invective, that I no longer hear their words.
It is my opinion that they are severely out of touch with their viewing audience. They post a stat that 16% think the country is ok, and 55% do not trust the media, and feel that we are in trouble.
Then a few minutes later state the Trump is an unpopular pick for president???
On what planet do they live? Trump was elected with unprecedented popular vote and Electoral College votes. If you argue the popular vote went to Clinton, I respond that if you take the country as a whole, and eliminate popular vote in 4 highly democratic dense populations in California, New York, Philadelphia, and Florida, and just make them even, Trump is over Clinton by over 3 million votes, but EVEN in those densely populated states, Trump prevailed in electoral representation, 307 to 216. Huge margins. Trump was elected by mandate of the people.
The stock market has reacted positively. Without even taking office yet, Trump is affecting business, negotiating jobs back to the US, affecting interaction with world powers, and cementing relations with Israel.
He is being blamed in the media for things he is not even in office yet to take responsibility for?
Concerning Health care. The pundits are going crazy saying that 20 million people will lose health care. Who exactly are these people? Do a little reading and you will see they are the poorest in America. Those least able to pay into any system to keep it afloat, and ACA is failing.
Why?
The young, and least affected by the need for health care, opt out! Do not pay into the system. The Older generation who would use health care the most, are not big wage earners, and cannot afford the most basic coverages of ACA, and are penalized for NOT having the coverage they cannot afford. Finally the largest part of the population the wage earner, Middle America. With 2.5 children, cannot get affordable health care. So they too go without, don’t pay into ACA and come to the conclusion that its cheaper to pay the penalty at the end of the year than to pay monthly fees and deductibles that are not nearly in their or anyone else’s budget.
Many of those refuse to pay the penalty at the end of the year either, so work their taxes to not get anything back at the end of tax time to be taken by the government. It is my hope that these pundits will get the kick in the crotch they deserve by their viewing audience and the incoming administration.
A clear dose of reality that they insist does not exist. Of course, this is my version of insanity. In that, the public keeps sending the pundits the same message day after day, week after week, and that they will hear us, listen, learn, and get a grip on life that they do not represent our reality, and that their version is severely flawed or outright incorrect and they will earn the right to voice what the public truly feels. I hope they can change, because we surely have.
Not sure I did it correctly but it is hopefully easier to read. Also check your email.
I did it (formatted) for him in case you didn’t read it entirely.
In other words, they think they are smarter than you, so why the heck would they waste their time listening to you. That is how they think.
thank you so much Robert.
Oh, by the way, watching them only convinces them they are right. The only way to get them to examine themselves is to turn them off. When enough people do that and their viewership dwindles then, and only then, will they question why their viewership is declining. As long as you assist in keeping their ratings high they have no reason to doubt their points of view.
Not a problem RB, glad to assist. Check your Freep Mail.
Did you notice the panels have changed personnel? New people. The blonde moderator has been replaced on Fox news as well...Oh, you don’t watch, so I guess this is the first you have heard..LOL Just funning with you.
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Megyn Kelly
Actually, I did read it all thus the notations on health insurance which was at the bottom of the posting.
I don’t know whether this would modify your statements—it doesn’t bear on the main point—but you might note that the claim that Secretary Clinton won the popular vote is a delusion (unless someone has data on how many votes went uncounted). Some states count all the absentee ballots, and some only count them when there are enough to possibly change the lead in the state. There are many absentee ballots that will never be counted. Since the absentee ballots tend to break Republican, it’s a good bet (though not certain) that Mr. Trump got a larger fractions of the votes cast, than of the votes counted. (And if you want to filter out the fraudulent ballots, that’s a whole other problem.) None of us will ever know what the actual totals were.
However, I agree with your statements, and no, we will never get an accurate count of ballots cast. But the counts really do not matter as the electoral college is the rules by which we elect our President. both nominees knew that fact before they even threw their hats into the ring. We all must assume that they campaigned accordingly as well.
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