Re: American's time shortage

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:34:54 GMT, "Byron Canfield"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> >Exxon made
>> >their largest profit ever during the quarter that coincided with
>> >Bush's Iraqi invasion - 5 billion dollars - and of course they love
>> >their brother Bush! The overwork situation makes it hard for
>> >American's to pay attention to the news, the major networks often tell
>> >only one side of the story, and of course it's hard for an uninformed
>> >population to participate intelligently in a democracy. It looks like
>> >the 'leaders' like this very much.
>>
>> America doesn't care about Iraq.  That is the truth.
>>
>Let's qualify that -- American GOVERNMENT doesn't care about Iraq. There are
>many American's, like myself, who are thoroughly disgusted with our
>government's collusion with the corporate sector in empire-building,
>bullying, and war-mongering. Time to throw the rascals out. (And you can
>bet, with the (un)Patriot(ic) Act (1 & 2), that some power-hungry
>neo-conservative will catch this post in some civilian spy filter.)

Surely some people probably agree with you, but judging from the lack
of sufficient outrage or serious public pressure to change the present
policies, I think my comment was still accurate.  America doesn't care
about Iraq.  For most Americans, the barometer by which the state of
the world is measured is the price of one gallon of unleaded.  As long
as that price is $1.75 or so, America overall doesn't give a damn.

JZAH