Quote Originally Posted by Matin View Post
this bothers me because america handles this badly in my eyes.

thoughts?
My only thought, one which I've had often in the past and which still seems relevant today, is that someone is making a good bit of money over this country's lack of matching tarriffs. Whether politicians or industry big-wigs (or both, which is most likely) these kinds of "mistakes" are unlikely unless someone is profiting from it.

And, as usual, the American people are fed a lot of lies and half-truths, and if they begin to see the real truth they are diverted by another scandal, or by the specter of terrorism, or by a "tax rebate".

Our focus has been whittled down to the two minute blurbs on the so-called TV news shows, and pointed at the all-important decision of which brain-dead, untalented freak is going to win American Idol. How far are we from the point where we no longer have any choice in what we do for entertainment? Mandatory watching of the TV monitors, which have become ubiquitous in our society, is just around the corner. Orwell was only off by about 30 years.