I was talking with a woman who immigrated from Yugoslavia and she said that life here is a great deal harder here than in her homeland. She said that in Yugoslavia, people didnt earn much but rent and food were inexpensive and they had a free public health plan. She said that in Yugoslavia, if you worked a typical 40 hour week at about any job, you could afford the basics of life. She says that here in the US, she has to work about 55 hours a week for the same standard of living and because she doesnt have any health insurance, all bets are off if she gets sick or hurt. She wondered aloud why people dont support a single-payer system like everyone else in he world has and I explained that because the health insurance providers have the ability to shape our perception of reality through the media, we have been taught to fear single payer. Whoever controls the media pretty much controls everything. There used to be such a thing as The Fairness Doctrine but I think it got tossed out the window somewhere. Unless something changes to guarantee that all sides of each issue get equal air time, I think were pretty much destined to devolve into despotism. From the moment we flip on the TV until our lived ones pry our cold, dead fingers off of the remote, we are taught what to believe, think and feel.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:01:23 +0000
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