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Daily Archives: May 12th, 2013

We Need to Understand


Our constant bombardment of information on  immigration, taxes, fiscal cliffs, sequesters and other stuff that is presented in “government speak” requires us to either dismiss it or translate it in to our perceptive understanding which is buffered by media interpretation or spin. As voters and citizens we  need to take the lead and under stand what we are hearing and seeing (seeing is not always what we see), to do this, we can make assumptions (which are wrong most of the time) or we can read whatever we can to flesh out what information we have. Our politicians, the assorted  aspirants and the background supporters of all sorts ( who try to influence and sway the election of their favorites)  spend billions of dollars to convince us that we need  them to tell us how to vote and why. We (voters) need to understand that every day the political machine ( and their minions) is flooding the newswires with as much disinformation as possible to “persuade” us vote as they want. The real control over who is elected is in the hands of the voters (us).

 

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Galileo Galilei


All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

This quote is at once short but encompasses all we need to know about the election campaigns we have witnessed, the current news that we receive through “sources”. My take is : take nothing for truth until you can prove it to yourself, keep a jaded eye and ear on what you see and hear.

 

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We Are On The Same Page?


Recently the NRA had its annual meeting in Texas . There is nothing wrong in that except the message is completely mixed but it was not so obvious to the attendees. After hours of speeches and rhetoric the consensus was that the government was wrong to try taking guns from law abiding citizens. In the wake of the recent mass shootings no one except possibly some off the path organizations (ala NRA) have advocated taking guns from anyone in the United States. Consider the fact that the current Congress and the President cannot get a budget passed let alone anything else.  The President, some of the Congress and other groups are seeking stronger laws to prevent (we hope) people who should not own or use firearms due to mental deficiencies, criminal records or other afflictions and conditions. The NRA represents about 4 million people out of 300 million yet purports to represent all. The main theme here is that the NRA does not represent all  who own firearms and their theme of the Government taking away firearms is erroneous (yet many believe it to be true). One of the reported lines from Wayne’s  sound bite was : “the  government needs to enforce the existing laws and prevent mentally ill from obtaining and using firearms” This is exactly what the President and other members of Congress have proposed and failed to do due to the powerful NRA lobby and constituents. The question is: Whose side are they on? They (the NRA) have pressured the recipients of their largess with election failure if they went along with any firearm laws reform. I believe the real truth is that we are all on the same page but in different columns. Is the NRA so narrowly focused that the only thing they can do is fan the fires of discontent to support their own (financial) agendas?

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