How TV Ruined Aspiration ( Archived) (48)

Don't you people get that something happened between "This Old House"(1979).. that was teaching you how to fix up what you already had to live better and "Extreme Home makeover"(2004-) that put poor people into fantastical luxury homes where they probably couldn't even afford to pay the first months power bill?



If population in the USA has a median income of $46,000/year per person, with a couple making maybe $67k, why is there so much of the advertising or programming geared to luxury items or lifestyles? For you to be inspired to buy beyond your means.. or to advertise to those who actually have the money?
The reality is that 66% of Americans make $200k and under and 34% under $67k.



We were forced into 2 wars for no good reason and Bush says to go shopping. His cronies profited, but Joe America buried his kid or watched him/her struggle with PTSD or without limbs at 20. Sweet ay? But please no pictures allowed, we wouldn't want them to get depressed and stop them from buying would we?

In those 30 odd yrs from 1979-2011... we have been steadily fed a diet of 'live beyond your means' indoctrination. Because during that same time period, the media conglomerates were eating up all the mom and pop newspapers in the US, the radio stations, the tv stations... the individual voices of a nation... and we've been receiving their formulated profit motivated, fear mongering, divisive, manipulative, fact avoiding propaganda ever since. And welcome to where conscienceless greed has gotten us. If you can't see that now ... then you deserve to keep watching the tv.. it's too late for you hypnotized drones.

Some of you say Americans aren't clueless... but that box is going 24/7 all over the states... it's the background noise to millions, do you really think it doesn't make a difference that subliminally people are absorbing the crap? The wants, the why not mes, the I deserve what they have too.. oh yeah I the I hates? It has created an atmosphere of warped reality, with politicians who lie so often that we can't even imagine what reality could be...30 yrs of garbage in and garbage out. They have separated us and are destroying us.

It's nothing new and it was happening even before this... but never in my 60 yrs have I seen such blatant disregard for throwing even a few crumbs at the 66% of US citizens holding the bag honestly paying their taxes, who can't afford to have a team of tax lawyers funneling their money into the Caymans to avoid them.

Now to add insult to injury, the GOP want to attack and blame the simple civil social services that actually help EVERYBODY in the United States, those remnants from a kinder gentler civil America... teachers, firemen, trash collectors, cops, day care, medicare, social security... that gave most people hope of living decently, thriving and dying with dignity. Oh well... we know the 1% can take care of themselves thanks to most of us being good obedient victims.

But whatever... some wait all day for the 'Wheel of Fortune'.. and some keep watching until the world crashes around their ears and then finally wonder what has happened.