[lit-ideas] Re: The flu

Judy: "perhaps I'm being unfair on your media"

No, you are not.  If I want to know about Iraq I read the BBC, Guardian,
etc.  For TV, we watch the CBC.  Much more reliable than anything here.
Even the NYTimes and Washington Post like to hide things several pages in.

Judy: Yes it will. Because by then, if the revolt gets anything at all, it
will get -- and people will settle for, most likely -- a "compromise" that
"gives back" just a little...

Actually it will be a disaster for the car companies.  Many of us who have
worked for the auto industry and draw our health benefits from them,
in our case my husband, buy American cars.  Always.  We have three.  We
encourage our friends to do so also, and they get a discount price.  If
they renege on this, we will make it a point to never buy another one.  It
will bankrupt them.  We are talking here about millions of people.

My insurance comes from the state in which I live.  They are so broke they
have cut education funding, medical care for the poor, raised taxes by
increasing user fees (park entrance, driver's license, license plates,
etc.) and we keep hearing from the Republicans, majority in both state
houses that we need more tax cuts.

Veronica
 



> [Original Message]
> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/22/2004 1:13:15 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu
>
> Monday, November 22, 2004, 3:32:20 PM, Veronica Caley wrote:
>
>
>
> VC> Absolutely.  But then the other big factor I think was fear.  Fear of
> VC> terrorists, fear of gays, taken in by excellent propaganda."
>
>
> Yes. The data on beliefs on Iraq and Al Qaeda (e.g.) in the US are very
worrying indeed -- the data here show a totally opposite pattern of
beliefs, and I cannot but think your media are somewhat culpable, the more
liberal of your legislators, perhaps, too.  
>
> now there
> VC> is.  This was known before the election.  Known at least by people
who read
> VC> or listened to a variety of sources.
>
> Yes -- perhaps I'm being unfair on your media: the structure of our press
and TV helps too. I can walk into more or less any newsagent in the country
(outside very rural areas) and see 10 national papers yelling their own
case.
>
>
> VC> I think the real revolt is going to come when the Corporations
severely cut
> VC> or do away with health care and drug co-pay.  I expect that around
Jan.
> VC> 2006.  Of course, it will be too little, too late.
>
> Yes it will. Because by then, if the revolt gets anything at all, it will
get -- and people will settle for, most likely -- a "compromise" that
"gives back" just a little...
>
>
>
> -- 
>  Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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