| More people can tell you how many yards Peyton Manning threw for or how many td catches Reggie Wayne had than could tell you who our Secretary of State is. I think that is the largest reason our local and federal politicians are involved in looting the taxpayers to pay for this crap. They know people will be distracted by the sports and not pay attention to what is really going on.
I can enjoy a good game like anyone else but I put it in perspective. I used to get on the Indy Star colts board and rip on the idiots who wanted the new Lucas Oil stadium for stealing my tax dollars for their pleasure. They don't care because they personally benefit from it. I railed on the city and the Colts for using iminent domain to steal Hurst's property. They don't care because they are getting what they want. They don't care that their pleasure comes at the cost of someone else's freedoms. These people make up the majority of our population so we are hosed.
Our politicians use sports and celebrities like the Romans used the gladiators. They distract the people while Rome is burning. I believe our country is lost and will never return. If your average so called citizen sees nothing wrong with stealing the property of someone for someone else's benefit, how can we reverse that? |