Dear Mr. President,
What’s wrong with people these days, why don’t they want to hear the truth anymore? Why, when confronted with actual facts, do they insist that ‘someone’ made up the facts? Why is this mentality so widespread, and when are we going to take our heads out of the sand?
I have a friend that I went to high school with that recently posted a reply to one of her friends, that she shares things on Facebook as long as they’re not political, because she gets so many that she doesn’t look at any of them.
In fact Mr. President, that’s not quite true… she shared a post that I believe was very pointed and political, and here is the post verbatim, typos and all.
“SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT… If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. Two Americans just got eight years for crossing the Iranian border. If you cross the U.S. border illegaly, you get a job, a driver’s license, food stamps, a place to live, health care, housing, child benefits, education, and a tax free business for 7 years? No wonder we’re a country in debt. LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!!”
The person she got it from had 5 likes and 1,106 shares, and she had 6 likes and 42 shares. My response was: “So let me get this straight… if only 6 people liked it, why did 42 people share it. Why would you share something you don’t like?” One can only imagine how many others ‘shared’ it as well. I can only hope that this was only meant as political hyperbole, used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally, but that would assume that all those people that saw fit to share it, actually knew it to be factually incorrect.
Does anyone ever question these outrageous claims? Illegal immigrants are never guaranteed a job; in fact, they’re often exploited and work for much less than others get for the same work because they are afraid to complain. If getting a drivers license was so easy, why are there so many driving without a license and insurance? Most would never apply for food stamps, or child benefits because the risk of being deported is too great. Health care is sought only under extreme conditions, and then it can only be provided through emergency care at a hospital. Yes, their children can, and do go to our public schools, but a tax-free business for 7 years, is just ludicrous.
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| Even Ostriches aren't this stupid. |
The frustrating part of this is that you can’t even talk to these people, they don’t want to hear it, but I suppose it’s like the quote from Thomas Paine – “Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead.”
When are the American people going to take their collective heads out of the sand and start thinking for themselves?
Most Respectfully,
Marcia Reimers,
Your Gadfly Granny
Couldn't have said it better. I get two forms of this rubbish. One is the outrageous and , I , believe, racially motivated propaganda. The other is the Libertarian attempts at equating Liberals with government give aways while supporting conservatives as the lesser of two evils.
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Thanks for commenting in the blog page Joe, I always appreciate your kind words of encouragement. And you're absolutely correct... that was totally motivated by racism.
ReplyDeleteMarcia, I so admire your eloquence. Your blog is so timely, too ... a Republican friend recently commented, off topic, that Romney's father was a Mexican immigrant. Unfortunately, after her idiotic rant I had to block her.
ReplyDeleteThanks Annie, I'm not so sure about the eloquence, but the frustration of trying to get through to people using actual facts is maddening. I recently had to block a woman that kept advocating violence and bombings as the way to get through to people... can you imagine that kind of craziness. I'll use my pen thank you, and I don't own a gun... LOL
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