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Premature What?????

This is from the Huffington post:  

“Chris Collins, GOP Candidate, Clarifies Controversial Cancer Comments”

The Huffington Post  |  By  Posted: 07/08/2012 5:47 pm Updated: 07/08/2012 5:52 pm

“Republican congressional candidate Chris Collins, who last week caused a stir when he claimed that “people now don’t die” from prostate and breast cancer, clarified his comments Saturday, stating that his criticism of Obama’s health care law was taken out of context.”
To read more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/chris-collins-cancer_n_1657723.html
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It seems that candidate Collins is suffering from a condition that is becoming far to common among republicans this campaign season.

The condition is called “premature extrapolation.” To extrapolate is to “infer (an unknown) from something that is known.” To do so without thinking is to do so “prematurely.”

There are techniques available to limit the possibilities of this occurring.

There’s the stop and start technique. Now this is for the more advanced types, those more experienced with miss-speaking and gaffes. (Mom used to tell me that “if you stop and think, you’ll think and stop.)

Then there’s the squeeze technique. This is for those with moderate mind-management skills. When you feel something stupid about come out of you mouth, put a hand on each side of your head and squeeze. Squeeze until it hurts, or until the pain takes that thought away.

For the least experienced of you, well, just think about baseball (line-ups, averages….)!

Finally, if all else fails, “Moonwalk.” The whole republican party is getting to be pretty good at it.  They are becoming so adept at walking back(wards), that even Michael Jackson would be proud of them.  The problem is while they are backtracking, looking backwards, they can’t see where they are going.

Neither can we. Let’s go FORWARD!

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OUTSOURCING vs. OFFSHORING

So the Romney team wants to debate the difference between “outsourcing and offshoring.”  Does it really matter?
 

“A distinction without a difference is a type of argument where one word or phrase is preferred to another, but results in no difference to the argument as a whole.” (Wikipedia)

One can argue the definitions and nuances of the words, but the meanings, in this particular context, are the same. So, also, are the outcomes. American’s are losing jobs and communities are losing revenue as a result of these job losses.

The loss of revenue results in the loss of services available to the communities. These communities are made up of real people.  Family’s.    Family’s that are left to fend for themselves, feed their children, pay their mortgages, plan for theirs, and their children’s, futures.

Without jobs the people are unable to support their local businesses and schools.  Unable to support their police and fire services.  Unable to support one another through their churches and charities.  Without these things the communities, and the people in them, will fail.

The automobile companies found out, the hard way in the early 70’s,that people without jobs do not buy cars. My hope is [that] our american industries, and politicians, don’t have to re-learn that lesson.


Working people pay their own way, pay their “fair share” of taxes, and build their lives and their communities together.


I know that I’ve posted this quote before, but, “Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.” (Author Unknown)


As frustrating as it is, between now and the election, I will probably have to post it again, and again, and again……!  

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
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