Posted on 02/10/2006 7:45:18 PM PST by logician2u
John Stossel's "Myths, Lies and Nasty Behavior"
Do you think farmers need more government assistance? Do you think gasoline is more expensive than ever? John Stossel may make you reconsider. (ABC)
Here's my latest list of things you may have been led to believe are true ? but aren't. I'm also including some nasty behaviors that are more than just annoying, they cost us all money.
I hope this will give you a different perspective about your money, your neighbors and your politicians.
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Welcome to Metro Atlanta, aka Tucker, Doraville, Snellville, Jonesboro, Griffin, Marietta, Roswell.....
The concrete monster that ate north Georgia.
Well, there's urban sprawl and then there is Dallas sprawl.....rooftops for miles upon miles. But the shopping is FABULOUS!!
When I told this to people at the gas station they didn't believe me. And why should they? The media keep telling us about the record high prices — they're just not adjusting for inflation!
In parking lots and on the highway, these dopes are on their cell phones. Why? Next step is to put heads up displays in the SUVs to watch ..."Who Did What to Whom" soap opera.
Why did the judges finally abandon school busing for racial balance?
Could it be that the more busing there was, the less balanced the schools were? That the white kids had (most of them anyway) moved out of the districts affected, so that those remaining were the new minority?
And, we all know that there's no need to give underprivileged white schoolkids an extra boost.
You noticed that Stossel's Myth No. 3 addressed the "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy of politicians who claim they are all for public schools, then enroll their own offspring in exclusive private academies.
The Clintons, Sen. Lincoln Chaffee and Jesse Jackson all did it, as well as most of the public school teachers in the Washington D.C. schools.
Not evil, just rude.
I'm sure people who live in NYC will tell you there was a change from General Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani.
I may be unusual, but when I see someone calling on their cell phone -- often just as soon as he/she gets in the ol' SUV -- my curiousity peaks about 10 milliseconds after noticing the cell phone pressed against the cheek.
After that, I ignore it.
As long as they are the ones paying for the service, why should I care how many minutes they burn up on useless calls?
Just because I restrict my calling to business and important personal calls shouldn't mean everyone else needs to also.
It's their choice.
We still (allegedly) live in a free country, don't we?
Someone ought to build a store next to your house then.
As long as they don't hit me I don't care what they do. But a lot of times it's a close call.
Oh. Did I miss the great tax reductions that Rudy enacted as mayor? Or the privatization of the city's bureacracy-bloated transit system? Or the Staten Island ferry boats?
Musta missed all that in the wake of 9/11.
But I'll wait and see what his successor -- also an alleged Republican -- manages to achieve before issuing a blanket condemnation of Republican big-city mayors.
Not holding my breath, though.
I like his myth segments.
Or maybe William would prefer the New Urbanism style, where the store is located under the house.
Judging from some of the responses, though, I might have alerted the wrong subset of FReepers. (Can't bear to wait until morning when the unfree-trade segment of our group complains that Stossel "doesn't get it" about the evils of outsourcing.)
"They are as different as Red states and Blue."
Precisely.
I have serious qualms about the concept of this nation being united again.
Here is the issue:
Anarchists, Communists, Atheists, Homosexuals, Terrorists, Abortionists, Muslims, UN Apologists, Satanists, Hollywood, New England, and the West Coast will ALWAYS HATE us All American Patriotic Conservatives.
So how exactly do we "unite" the red with the blue?
Pinging the West Coast gang that you don't want to miss this Stossel special!
He made drastic improvements in cleaning up the city and made a difference in the crime rate.
Please watch.
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