Misinformation Morning
November 9th, 2009 - 9:21 am
Because the holiday season is fast approaching, I am in all sorts of contact with the Senior Contingent in my life, which means I am being “educated” about what the health care reform bills “actually” say on a regular basis. Oh … the joy.
Today I was informed that federal money is going to be used to pay for abortions, and if a senior citizen breaks their hip, they’ll have to wait six months to get it fixed. It’s in the bill!
I have no idea where they get this misinformation, but having read the bill (and watched/read news and CSpan), I can tell you that a) no, federal money isn’t going to used to pay for abortions and b) nowhere in the bill is there anything about old people having to wait at ALL for anything. I have to assume they are getting this stuff from Glenn Beck, ridiculous chain emails, and each other.
Anyway, always delightful to start the day by trying to convince someone they have been lied to and failing. They still believe this stuff, because you know I never know anything.
Additionally, I was informed that there was no way I could understand the bill which I have read (all of them in all their various iterations), because “you need to be a lawyer or have a lawyer to understand it.” Why don’t they just call me stupid and get it over with already?
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She treats you that way because she clings to her mother status, even after all this time. She wants your life to be a child’s subset of hers. Also, her attitude with you is likely the same one she displays around potential boyfriends. Were she to be involved with someone even slightly engaging, her hectoring on the phone would drop to near nothing. Given that’s a non-possibility, she remains jealous of your ‘exciting’ life in the big city, your education, your man, etc. Your abandonment of her, Fredburg and all attendant provincial values is viewed as treason. When you talk back to her it only confirms you’ve gone over to the enemy side.