Re: Tax preparation software by Shane
Shane
Sun Feb 26 05:10:40 CST 2006
"BJ Honeycut" <freaf@dontgothere.us> wrote in message
news:Xns977631078C8C8vincentvangogh@130.81.64.196...
> "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:OO0cY9gOGHA.3260@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl:
>
>>> I believe the term was isolationim, and please don't blame the
>>> average US citizen for that...It was started vy a bunch of folks of a
>>> particular political party and had little to do with how most of us
>>> think, which is unfortunately narrow minded and egocentric.
>>>
>>
>> I think you're being a bit hard on yourself there!
>>
>> But seriously, I think Figgs is probably referring to the famous
>> condition of average US citizenship whereby they are more-or-less
>> deprived of news of the rest of the world - except when US interests
>> are involved - and don't appear to object to it. I have never heard
>> this disputed, nor that the average American does *not* watch a lot of
>> tv (thereby giving tacit approval).
>>
>> There are undoubtedly a lot of what one might call 'World Citizens' in
>> the US, but there are also undoubtedly a lot who don't even begin to
>> understand that, eg the Arab world doesn't really want McDonalds, Coca
>> Cola and Hollywood blockbuster tributes to the art of murder and
>> explosion flooding their markets by stealth (cultural imperialism).
>> Could have done with a lot less of it here - but US companies, like
>> tobacco peddlars targetting children, get 'em while they're young!
>>
>> It may not be how most of you think, but being too apathetic to vote
>> the one's who do, out, is not too impressive. I mean, if not by direct
>> majority mandate then can't you guys do something by objecting to
>> electoral corruption, perhaps, say with something of the fervour of
>> the sixties? Are the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth
>> really so helpless now?
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>
> No arguments here...I regularly check out BBC as well as the US news
> outhouses (er...I mean outlets) but it only goes so far when the guy next
> door is whining about how things are and yet considers voting not an
> option. How do you reason with someone who agrees but doesn't want to do
> something.
Meanwhile I *was* always ready to admit it's not necessarily any better
here! Well...not much.
Guess it's what comes of playing on the weaknesses of the working guy, you
know, 'hey, he likes to eat chicken until he's sick, offer him as much as he
likes and he'll vote for us!'
It seems, from here, the most vociferous supporters of unregulated trade are
the Americans who keep talking about God. I wonder how they imagine the
resulting business practices differ from the way the devil would do things?
Maybe they don't *really* Believe, and the whole point is to justify
*whatever* they do in the name of making a buck.
>
> I think the fervor of the 60s is out of the question, but maybe a little
> of 1776? I'm just as frustrated as the rest of the world. :(
>
Amen to that. British managerial classes are as feeble as ever, but as
emboldened as ever by the same traditions that still make our media give a
flying f??? what Prince Charles does or doesn't do!...Do they have any
guillotines in Boston?
Shane