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Distractions. Pick your flavor. We have lots. However, some are bigger than others.
Take a recent Google search for two separate but current issues.
- Heath Care Reform: Results 1 - 10 of about 29,000,000 for health care reform. (0.18
- Copenhagen Climate Conference: Results 1 - 10 of about 4,370,000 for copenhagen climate conference. (0.16 seconds)
Logging into Yahoo! today, seeing the upteenth headline on health care reform, and it suddenly hit me... perhaps I'm a bit slow on the uptake...this is all just a distraction. Not the need for health care reform, but all the damned (to borrow a word from my "favorite" Republican) dithering, the lies and fear-mongering about death panels, less choice and *gasp* higher taxes, etc.
We have sick people who are dying because they don't have health care, or because their health care is inadequate, or because their health care dropped them because they got sick. This is a non-issue that has been made into an issue, a dilemma that has a solution. Arguing about abortion and death panels turns the whole thing, and all of us, into a joke.
Smoke and mirrors.
How many people know anything about what's coming up in December? Who in our government is talking about its importance? Who in our media is telling the whole truth?
The search results speak for themselves.
~FdlL
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