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August 12, 2009
Get Educated Before You Get Passionate
The thing that annoys me the most about the ongoing health care "debate" raging in the media, in town halls, and on the inter-tubes is the amount of misinformation being flung by both sides.
I haven't made time to read the the house bill, which clocks in at nearly 1200 pages, and from the random crap being vomited up by pundits and the populace, it seems generous to suggest that they haven't either.
I'm not sure that you can call what's going on "vigorous debate" - it's FUD and sensationalism.
Be passionate, take an active role in your governance, but please, be skeptical, don't regurgitate what your favorite commentator on your favorite news source said just 'cause they said it and you agree with it.
That's not democracy, and it doesn't benefit anyone but the power-brokers.
Posted by dberger at August 12, 2009 7:26 AM