A Response To: Fear and Lying?
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
By Neil Cavuto
FOXNews
Editorial Link: Here
My Response:
Perhaps you should read your own commentary first.
"...never mind it doesn't know the plan, hasn't seen the plan."
Yeah, because W won't submit a plan because he doesn't want to be tied to one that won't float...oh, and he doesn't have one beyond getting private accounts implemented.
That the president's going to take their Social Security away, when he isn't.
That benefits will be cut back, when they won't.
That they'll pay more for those benefits, when they can't.
How do YOU know this if there is NO plan? Cognitive dissonance?
Like Social Security's math: fewer people paying in, more people taking benefits out. That's not good.
Yeah, but PRIVATE ACCOUNTS make the problem WORSE, not better, by W's own admission.
AARP ISN'T against FIXING Social Security, they are against HOW the administration has PROPOSED to fix it via its 60-day tour.
You're engaging in an intellectual slight of hand in order to influence opinion - that is simply disingenuous to your readers and frankly unbecoming of someone in your position. In short, it stinks.
What's next, quoting USANext? I mean come on, we all know AARP is against the military and pro gay right? Your hyperbole is misplaced and your attacks on AARP for doing EXACTLY what this administration has done to win election twice, e.g. appeal to emotion, is laughable in its hypocrisy. Do you really think everyone is THAT dumb?
You disappoint me.
You can always tell how desperate the right is getting by their approach to making a point.
Stage One: Create false crisis to get people interested and emotionally tuned.
Stage Two: Create policy that appeals to their emotional state created by Stage One and favors religious theology, big business and unrestricted free markets (Irony in itself).
Stage Three: Sell snake oil to public via sales tactics used by direct mailers, cold callers and high-pressure salesmen.
Stage Four: Evaluate stance: If enough snake oil is sold, then pass legislation and collect money; if snake oil is seen for what it is, bunk, then move to Stage Five.
Stage Five: Attack those that challenge the usefulness of the snake oil.
Stage Six: Repeat four and five until you get what you want - if you fail go to stage 7.
Stage Seven: If snake oil can no longer be sold, blame those that debunked the snake oil for lack of snake oil in one's life - continue to blame for at least two terms.
Pathetic. The difference is trying to solve problems for selfish, ideological reasons and trying to solve problems for the good of the many, not just the few.
The irony is that the God to which so many on the right CLAIM to pledge allegiance can see through the faux faith and piousness and see the rampant greed, selfishness, bigotry and violence that they promote on a daily basis via their rhetoric and legislation. All your wealth, political victories, slick sales presentations and charm will not save you from your Karma or final judgment.
Think about that.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
By Neil Cavuto
FOXNews
Editorial Link: Here
My Response:
Perhaps you should read your own commentary first.
"...never mind it doesn't know the plan, hasn't seen the plan."
Yeah, because W won't submit a plan because he doesn't want to be tied to one that won't float...oh, and he doesn't have one beyond getting private accounts implemented.
That the president's going to take their Social Security away, when he isn't.
That benefits will be cut back, when they won't.
That they'll pay more for those benefits, when they can't.
How do YOU know this if there is NO plan? Cognitive dissonance?
Like Social Security's math: fewer people paying in, more people taking benefits out. That's not good.
Yeah, but PRIVATE ACCOUNTS make the problem WORSE, not better, by W's own admission.
AARP ISN'T against FIXING Social Security, they are against HOW the administration has PROPOSED to fix it via its 60-day tour.
You're engaging in an intellectual slight of hand in order to influence opinion - that is simply disingenuous to your readers and frankly unbecoming of someone in your position. In short, it stinks.
What's next, quoting USANext? I mean come on, we all know AARP is against the military and pro gay right? Your hyperbole is misplaced and your attacks on AARP for doing EXACTLY what this administration has done to win election twice, e.g. appeal to emotion, is laughable in its hypocrisy. Do you really think everyone is THAT dumb?
You disappoint me.
You can always tell how desperate the right is getting by their approach to making a point.
Stage One: Create false crisis to get people interested and emotionally tuned.
Stage Two: Create policy that appeals to their emotional state created by Stage One and favors religious theology, big business and unrestricted free markets (Irony in itself).
Stage Three: Sell snake oil to public via sales tactics used by direct mailers, cold callers and high-pressure salesmen.
Stage Four: Evaluate stance: If enough snake oil is sold, then pass legislation and collect money; if snake oil is seen for what it is, bunk, then move to Stage Five.
Stage Five: Attack those that challenge the usefulness of the snake oil.
Stage Six: Repeat four and five until you get what you want - if you fail go to stage 7.
Stage Seven: If snake oil can no longer be sold, blame those that debunked the snake oil for lack of snake oil in one's life - continue to blame for at least two terms.
Pathetic. The difference is trying to solve problems for selfish, ideological reasons and trying to solve problems for the good of the many, not just the few.
The irony is that the God to which so many on the right CLAIM to pledge allegiance can see through the faux faith and piousness and see the rampant greed, selfishness, bigotry and violence that they promote on a daily basis via their rhetoric and legislation. All your wealth, political victories, slick sales presentations and charm will not save you from your Karma or final judgment.
Think about that.
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