Staying Dumb as Hell, Drinkin' Mountain Dew, Bitch
"Culturally Constructed Ignorance"
Yesterday I received an email dismissing global warming because it's been cold outside the past 2 winters. The astounding level of willful ignorance is enough to make one give up on the human race. I'm about there. The following link is a very interesting article about how it's easy to stay ignorant in these information-rich times.
All it will take to really send me over the edge is more of this Republican-led backlash against, well, logic. All I've heard againa and again for the last week or so is how the Obama stimulus bill is really a spending bill. So what's wrong with that? It's called investing. And why would ANYONE actually listen to these morons? They are the party that got us into so much trouble in the first place! If tax cuts haven't worked for 8 years, why would they suddenly work now? If you got a few hundred bucks back from Uncle Sam in May, would you immediately go buy something with that money? If you're a monkey, you might go buy a big bunch of bananas, but people in this economy are more likely to pay down their debts. That doesn't help grow the economy. So why the fuss about tax cuts? Because tax cuts help RICH PEOPLE.
Why not adopt the Jon Stewart plan? Yes, the host of The Daily Show proposes that the billion-dollar bailout be distributed to Americans so they can pay off their debts. This would level the playing field, as we would all be free to buy more stuff instead of still paying for the stuff we already bought, and all of that money in payments would go right to the banks, so they'd have an influx of cash from exactly the correct place: consumers. Why wouldn't this work? I can't imagine how it would not. It's a non-violent Fight Club ending. And none of us need to shoot ourselves in the face for it to work.
Peace,
T-to-the-B
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