rovean media types, selling drugs to the public, and shafted workers...

I made the mistake of attempting to watch meet the press again this week...I didn't make it past the first question posed to gore by brokaw. the question was brilliantly phrased in a way that must have made karl rove beem with pride. brokaw, in an apparent attempt to ask "the hard questions" and find an inner-journalist that no longer exists, posed a question on gore's challenge to go renewable for electricity completely within ten years. only it wasn't really a question - it was a statement, and the message was simple (much like brokaw's buddy peter being worried about his taxes being raised) - you want to raise taxes. it was one of those right-wing-the-answer-doesn't-matter questions because the listener isn't paying attention, all they hear is "raise taxes." and gore didn't call him on it, and this is why the democrats keep fucking losing. they need to call the media on this bullshit...he needed to declare that $300 billion would easily be found in appropriately taxing corporations, closing the loopholes which allow corporations and the uber-rich to avoid paying taxes altogether, and returning the tax structure to the level it was at when this country had an economy and democracy that was actually something to brag about. he needed to slap brokaw for buying into the right-wing talking point machine and declare that the money is there if we just quit giving it away to business. instead, he began to drone on and on and it took him quite some time to tell brokaw that the iraq war has cost much more. I find it insulting as an american that the question insinuated it could not be done...within a few short decades of developing a jet engine we put a fucking man on the moon - and I'm supposed to believe that we can't figure out to efficiently use wind and solar power to turn a light bulb on? liberal media my ass...

why is it that drug companies are allowed to market so heavily to joe public? why are we not gravely concerned that companies spend more money on marketing than they do on research and development? why is it that every other commercial is informing us to ask our doctor if some drug that we aren't even really sure what it does is right for us? isn't it a doctor's fucking job to determine which medicines are right for us - and not some hack of a "marketing" executive? people always like to knock on attorneys because of the few that advertise and seek clients that have been hurt in an accident, etc. we call them ambulance chasers and snicker and sneer at them. but when companies that are providing (or not providing as is increasingly the case) medicine do the same thing - we pump up their stock. this is bullshit and has to stop. but we have to stop complaining about the companies that are using the playing field we have given them to steal from us while they poison us and destroy our society...it is time to change the rules, alter the game so that we can actually stop them from stealing from us, poisoning us and destroying our society.

if the average family income had increased at the same rate as worker productivity over the last few decades, the average american family would be earning $20,000 more a year then it actually is. think about that for a minute...while inflation has gone up (and if you don't know, look into how inflation is determined now - they changed the rules to make it look much lower than it actually is...sneaky bastards - ow, and for all you partisan fucks out there, it was under clinton) and you are producing a shitload more, your pay has gone nowhere. think about it...an extra $20,000 a year for the average family - that is a college education, that is a new car, that is a home without worry about foreclosure, that is a savings for retirement, that is a way to not have to shop at walmart. thank god for the "free" market, without it we might actually have a society worth exporting to the world...

you've been in business for too long...