When we, in the past, had only printed material, things had already changed by the time we realized that we were now drowning in detail and advertisements Today, everybody is so connected to everyone else with opinions riding the wires in milliseconds..
It was clear that some of the radio and TV talk hosts swayed elections in the mid-nineties which resulted in a Republican run house and, I think, Senate. Now all the media tries to influence outcomes. We've gone far beyond Rush Limbaugh, who should go the way of Glenn Beck.only further away.
Whoever steered President Obama to start talking in the territory of voters for Boehner and Cantor, is brilliant. The problem is people hate to be proved wrong. Will people in those parts of the country listen to the man they might have voted for as President who will be trying to tell them that the people they put in the House of Representatives are not doing their job? We can only hope they have already begun to question their votes for them.
Meanwhile, I wonder how many people are living off the collection of monies for charities which keep sending out so many mailings and materials that I can't believe there is much money left after operating expenses for anyone else to benefit.
The other day I heard that the Post Office is running underfunded because there (among other reasons, like the Internet) they are not getting as much revenue because companies are sending less mailed advertising. (Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus) I haven't noticed that I am getting fewer catalogs. Even when I request that they stop them, it has been like turning off the salt machine as that old fairy tale went.
When will some of these services catch up to the fact that it is cheaper all the way around now that we have beefed up the technology to do the same tasks? We need to stop seeing advancement in science and technology as putting people out of jobs and start seeing the need for people to create new jobs, businesses, and truly be creative entrepreneurs.
It was clear that some of the radio and TV talk hosts swayed elections in the mid-nineties which resulted in a Republican run house and, I think, Senate. Now all the media tries to influence outcomes. We've gone far beyond Rush Limbaugh, who should go the way of Glenn Beck.only further away.
Whoever steered President Obama to start talking in the territory of voters for Boehner and Cantor, is brilliant. The problem is people hate to be proved wrong. Will people in those parts of the country listen to the man they might have voted for as President who will be trying to tell them that the people they put in the House of Representatives are not doing their job? We can only hope they have already begun to question their votes for them.
Meanwhile, I wonder how many people are living off the collection of monies for charities which keep sending out so many mailings and materials that I can't believe there is much money left after operating expenses for anyone else to benefit.
The other day I heard that the Post Office is running underfunded because there (among other reasons, like the Internet) they are not getting as much revenue because companies are sending less mailed advertising. (Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus) I haven't noticed that I am getting fewer catalogs. Even when I request that they stop them, it has been like turning off the salt machine as that old fairy tale went.
When will some of these services catch up to the fact that it is cheaper all the way around now that we have beefed up the technology to do the same tasks? We need to stop seeing advancement in science and technology as putting people out of jobs and start seeing the need for people to create new jobs, businesses, and truly be creative entrepreneurs.
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