Idiotic acceptance of Obama Care

Too many Americans believe that they have certain things to which they are entitled even if they have not had to pay for them. This leads to widespread abuses such as in the "public welfare" area.  Many Americans do not care who pays for their entitlement as long as the government doles it out and makes them happy.  That is not to say that some people deserve help and   the government has an obligation to aid them.
Enter Obama care.  In an effort to "provide" medical coverage for a few million additional people, drastic cuts are being made to programs such as Medicare and yes grandma will eventually be told to attend a seminar on how to end her life early.  Do most Americans know that in the so called affordable health care bill there is a provision that if one has a transaction regarding gold it has to be reported to the federal government?  Now that is health care at its best.  But people are stupid and willing to give up freedoms  just so they  can have their entitlements.
The real problem has never been addressed.  Why is health care out of control -- it is not because doctors are sued for mal-practice.  It is because of greed like so many other things in America. It is much the same with oil and how the speculators have had their way in the stock and commodity market and businesses that the American people bailed out.  No one seems to care nor do they do anything about it.
Just give me my entitlements and go away.  So what if the government tells me what to wear and how to speak and what to eat and where to go and what  kind of car to drive and where to send my kid to school...I don't care --just give me what I deserve.  It is my entitlement and I want it.  Let future generations sort it out.  Maybe the Chinese will do it for us.

Sad State of American Television Programming

I usually view TV using a HD antenna.  I became really tired of paying huge sums of money to cable and satellite providers who forced me to take the programming they thought that I deserved, along with 30 shopping only channels and as many music channels.  I considered that most of their staffs voted on what people should watch with a plurality of ignorance.
I watch the main  networks, NBC, CBS, CW and ABC (out of the Pittsburgh, PA and Youngstown, Ohio areas)  as a rule. All I can say is thank goodness for remotes.  It makes it easy to turn them off.  How many times a day do we have to watch Judge Judy, followed by Judge Tom,Dick, and Harry, and then Quick Justice  followed by even quicker justice.  Then there is "let's get a divorce" court. Then at any time during the day we are treated to SPAM:  Paid Programs.  Duh?  Have they not learned from the INTERNET that people hate spam? Again, thank goodness for remotes.  They are simply lazy and cheap fill in  programs that are basically  geared to people who have the IQ  of about 3 steps below that of a well trained Airedale.
How long do we have to watch "survivor?"  How long do we have to put up with "American Idol?"  It would seem that America has enough idols to worry  about.  Then there is  large doses of the Biggest Loser.....they have named that program correctly.  These people may  struggle to overcome what is largely their own fault, and I am glad that they have come their senses...but tons  of emotion and weigh ins and the proverbial "where did I go wrong?"  Everyone knows that America is full of obese people, especially children, and so the right messages have not been followed in the first place.  If a person has a disability that causes problems with weight that is one thing and they deserve our compassion and help....but for the others--think with your mind and not your stomach and let us watch something much better on TV than your stupidity.
Thanks goodness that we are able to view 4  Public Television HD stations in our area.  Those people (WNEO) have it all together and we do not have to put up with the trash of the main networks.  If the Survivors and Losers and Idols and crazy chefs are what main street Americans want, this country is is serious trouble.  It is already plagued by day and night time  soap operas under the guise of good television.

I am tired of Face Book

It seems that every where you go you have to be a member of Face Book in order to post something online.  I am sure that the owners of Face Book are happy about their success, but they are in fact forming what amounts to be their own "country." It seems to me just to be a big power grab and while it is a "service" so is the likes of the US federal government, and we all know how that thing works, or doesn't.  People get caught up in fads that they do not pay much attention to reality.  They will stand in line to buy a new electronic item or even worse all night to get the first seats in a movie that is much hyped even if it is done well.  The media will be sure to notice all this and give it further energy, but that is what the media does.
Remember it was the media that first suggested that gasoline prices would be above four dollars by May and perhaps hit five dollars. This  gave the speculators all the incentives they needed under the guise of worrying about Iran.
Yes, we are becoming media junkies.  While the INTERNET has supplied us with many great benefits, "take overs" with demands that this service is "required" is intellectual communism at its worse.  Go ahead and be a slave to some "service" if you will.  In the long run there are sure to be many good consequences and a lot of bad ones.  Is compromise really worth it in the end?  Am I the only one in the world not on Face Book?  Who really cares?  I certainly do not.