You should always verify information you get from one source

[ElmerMudd]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

 

[frigidweirdo]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

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99% of people on this forum don't bother to verify anything. They can barely go out and search for information in the first place.

 

[OKTexas]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

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I haven't heard all of the details, but the Scott plan would require a vote to continue funding for all social programs. That will put a stop to all the automatic funding for a multitude of duplicate and redundant programs. And the vast majority of those programs are funded straight out of the general fund and not through payroll and medicare taxes. Also you can't keep giving Social Security and Medicare to people that have paid nothing into the programs and not expect them to go bankrupt.

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[Foxfyre]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

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Trump planned to grant a tax holiday for lower earning Americans as COVID relief if he was re-elected. It would not be permanent and would not eliminate the taxes but would defer them. It was intended to allow people to keep buying groceries during the shut downs.

Rick Scott was mischaracterized as intending to end Social Security and Medicare but with deadlines looming for both running out of money, he thought Congress should look at it every now and then instead of just letting it run on its own. All the bruhaha caused something of a firestorm but no, he didn't intend to cut off Grandma's social security check.

Likewise Graham, teamed up with Elizabeth Warren of all people, knows that some adjustments need to be made in Social Security and Medicare in order for them to remain solvent and they may need some tweaking. He by no means suggested scrap the programs.

 

[struth]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

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ah the annual they are gonna kill grandma and grandpa lines from the demafacist

 

[OKTexas]

ah the annual they are gonna kill grandma and grandpa lines from the demafacist

Yep, ya just can't trust bumper sticker slogans, especially from commiecrats.

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[Samofvt]

YOU didn't pay for half of it, but your kids and grandkids sure will be.

Go ahead and keep pretending socialism worked ever, anywhere, in the entire history of the world...unless there is a slave system in place, it never has.

 

[Mac1958]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

99% of people on this forum don't bother to verify anything. They can barely go out and search for information in the first place.

It really is a strange dichotomy: The more supposed "facts", "information" and "news" is thrown at us, the less variety we appear to consume. I guess the noise becomes so great that it's human nature to block out that which is unfamiliar. And it doesn't help that we are also a society that demands instant gratification.

Regardless, we need to make some decisions as a society pretty damn soon. A free republic can't maintain itself when reality is split into two or three competing pieces. If we don't establish and enforce some level of standards for organizations that call themselves "news", it sure seems like this will only continue to decay.

One thing we know is that we can't depend on politicians for factual accuracy and intellectual honesty. In our current "system", they're incentivized and rewarded to push the opposite. Our "politics" have decayed into little more than professional wrestling.

 

[1srelluc]

I can look at that and tell a dem came up with it....Mean spirited with not a smidge of humor.

LOL....It's akin to some loon typing something out in all caps in a run-on sentence over on DU.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You should always verify information you get from one source. I received the information below from one source. Is this true?

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You get your information from out of context memes??

Hilarious.

 

[22lcidw]

99% of people on this forum don't bother to verify anything. They can barely go out and search for information in the first place.

If true it is because the media/entertainers are much worse.

 

[cnm]

YOU didn't pay for half of it, but your kids and grandkids sure will be.

Go ahead and keep pretending socialism worked ever, anywhere, in the entire history of the world...unless there is a slave system in place, it never has.

Yet national health care and social safety nets have worked in the Nordic countries, for example.

 

[frigidweirdo]

It really is a strange dichotomy: The more supposed "facts", "information" and "news" is thrown at us, the less variety we appear to consume. I guess the noise becomes so great that it's human nature to block out that which is unfamiliar. And it doesn't help that we are also a society that demands instant gratification.

Regardless, we need to make some decisions as a society pretty damn soon. A free republic can't maintain itself when reality is split into two or three competing pieces. If we don't establish and enforce some level of standards for organizations that call themselves "news", it sure seems like this will only continue to decay.

One thing we know is that we can't depend on politicians for factual accuracy and intellectual honesty. In our current "system", they're incentivized and rewarded to push the opposite. Our "politics" have decayed into little more than professional wrestling.

I think the problem is that people don't want to do work. They know what they "know" and they don't care to be wrong, no matter how wrong they are.

When people have been brought up with religion, and learning to dismiss anything inconvenient, and to accept any old bullshit some pedo-priest throws at them, while ignoring the fact that he's doing bad things... it leads to a mentality.

And instant entertainment is evident on here too. People haven't got the patience for anything beyond "now, gratify me now".

 

[frigidweirdo]

If true it is because the media/entertainers are much worse.

Absolute nonsense.
But then this is perfect example of "it's always someone else's fault"

 

[Lesh]

I haven't heard all of the details, but the Scott plan would require a vote to continue funding for all social programs. That will put a stop to all the automatic funding for a multitude of duplicate and redundant programs. And the vast majority of those programs are funded straight out of the general fund and not through payroll and medicare taxes. Also you can't keep giving Social Security and Medicare to people that have paid nothing into the programs and not expect them to go bankrupt.

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It would make Social Security a political football subject to being destroyed every couple years.

Ron Johnson wants to do that EVEY year.

Fuck the GOP. From Dog Catcher to the White House

 

[Mac1958]

I think the problem is that people don't want to do work. They know what they "know" and they don't care to be wrong, no matter how wrong they are.

When people have been brought up with religion, and learning to dismiss anything inconvenient, and to accept any old bullshit some pedo-priest throws at them, while ignoring the fact that he's doing bad things... it leads to a mentality.

And instant entertainment is evident on here too. People haven't got the patience for anything beyond "now, gratify me now".

This appears to be who we are. I've been saying all along, this is a sociological crisis, not a political crisis.

 

[Foxfyre]

ah the annual they are gonna kill grandma and grandpa lines from the demafacist

Yep. It's a common campaign theme from the left every election season. Most Republicans look for ways to save the programs and most believe they will require some reorganization and/or tweaking at some point. And most Democrats accuse them of wanting to do away with the programs every time.

 

[sartre play]

If you look back you will see the GOP has tried over and over to change SOCIAL SECURITY. IF you are really honest they have not been good ideas.

 

[struth]

If you look back you will see the GOP has tried over and over to change SOCIAL SECURITY. IF you are really honest they have not been good ideas.

they have a plan that is model after the highly successful Swedish model

 

[LordBrownTrout]

i likez ta spel.