Our government withholds the truth
Every so often I have to call some company or organization. During the call, I follow the choices offered by an electronic phone tree, eventually getting back to where I started. This maddening "loop the loop" seems to happen to everyone (especially to those desperate people trying to understand Medicare Part D.)
And so it goes with our government. We want to get some answers about Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, scandals in Congress, health care, mining disasters ... the list is endless. The State of the Union is like "A Million Little Pieces": repeating the same cheap messages but never giving us the truth needed for a democratic society.
We hear "your government is there for you" just like "your call is very important to us" and suspect there is as much truth in each. And that seems to be the goal. As Karl Rove once said, "We will shrink the government until it can fit into a bathtub, and then we'll drown it." The process starts with shrinking the truth, one loop at a time.
Oh, and this call may be recorded for training purposes.
Kurt Lauenstein
Greensboro
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"We will shrink the government until it can fit into a bathtub, and then we'll drown it."
Ya gotta love Karl Rove
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9307-2005Feb8.html
Posted on February 7, 2006 5:44 AM
Another liberal letter with the typical rants about all of the country's "problems", but absolutely no solutions. This is indicative of the present-day Democratic Party....no longer the "party of ideas", but now the party of obstruction, bitterness, hatred, victimization, division, and dare I say, now the "party of Castro, Chavez, and Bin Laden" as we hear the same anti-Bush comments coming from Fidel, Hugo, Osama, and DNC chairman Howard Dean.
Posted on February 7, 2006 11:10 AM
Mark this day on your calander,Thomas. This letter from Lauenstein will appear about the same time next month. The words will be scrambled slightly, but for the most part it will be the same tripe. He will most likley include rants about "cuts in healthcare" in the next edition.
Posted on February 7, 2006 11:40 AM
In other words, neo, we need to prepare ourselves for the SOTLBSDD?
Why am I not surprised?
Posted on February 7, 2006 3:29 PM
Bubba, et. al., you are not surprised just as I am not surprised at the same responses given (SOTLBSDD) by these same ones each time a LTE of this nature is published.
Am I the only one surprised by this?
Shalom
Posted on February 7, 2006 3:40 PM
Bubba...
yes.
Posted on February 7, 2006 4:12 PM
I'm confused. Darryl, are you surprised or not?
Posted on February 7, 2006 5:40 PM
What happened to HUGH after I posted links to the Vegan groups being surveilled by FBI & NSA???
Somebody, quick! Throw water on Hugh's "EXCUSE MACHINE"!! That thing's gonna blow!
Posted on February 7, 2006 6:42 PM
"Bubba, et. al., you are not surprised just as I am not surprised at the same responses given (SOTLBSDD) by these same ones each time a LTE of this nature is published."
In that case, I commend you, Darryl. The truth, and the defense of the truth, should never be a surprise to people of good will and cognizance of reality.
Posted on February 7, 2006 8:46 PM
Bubba, it just seems that there are only a few of us who will truly stand up for truth and justice. The others just follow groups blindly without question or reservation. Those are the ones who need to become informed.
Shalom
Posted on February 7, 2006 10:02 PM