It’s not enough to call someone a liar. You need to provide proof, providing proof will require research. Research will yield truth, and the truth may not sit well with the propaganda you’ve accepted as gospel.
Monthly Archives: September 2016
People Ignorance and Poverty
How do you justify thinking that people are expendable? When did citizens of this great nation, descendants of immigrants every one, come to the conclusion that wanting what we take for granted is worth a man, woman, or child’s life?
In what way do you go about convincing yourself that increasing the profits of a few wealthy men is worth despoiling a landscape or destroying an aquifer that millions of people depend on for drinking water?
You fashion arguments in defense of corporations wage policy, knowing full well that the only reason those businesses don’t pay their entry level help less is because it’s against the law.
Millions spent with lobbyists who help fabricate the plausible sounding lies, willingly shared by people that have never known hunger. Billions spent in bonuses to executives willing to trade a living wage for a deeper bottom line.
People are not expendable, Ignorance is not bliss, and poverty is not inevitable.
A Politician Is Born
A little charisma, a well turned phrase or two, a few million dollars from corporate donations or a political parties coffers and behold, a politician is born. What could be easier, and of less value to the average American?