I’ve been on this planet for almost four decades. One accumulates quite a bit of “life experience” is such a time span. I’ve always preferred people to be direct with me, just tell me what is on your mind, don’t beat around the bush. I’ll deal with it, I promise. One of my biggest peeves, and pardon the crude pun here, is do not “Piss in my face, then try to convince me it’s raining”.

Each year, I get a letter from my employer attempting to “sugar coat” the premium increase for health insurance. It’s really insulting to my intelligence. To read the letter, one would think they are doing me a favor! “We’ve added this benefit and that benefit (which you’ll never use), oh and by the way, you have to pay 30% more this year”. I don’t want to hear their physco-babble nonsense. If the letter was written something like this… “Dear subscriber, unless you are a complete moron and haven’t been watching a lick of news for the past few years, you already realize that health care costs have been spiraling out of control. We as a corporation, are not willing to eat into our profit margin and absorb these costs for you. Effective immediately a 30% increase will go into effect.” You see, I could respect something like that. At least I would know exactly where I stand.

Another of my favorites came from when I was in Management. Each year, when annual increases were due, they would send me a “compensation letter” detailing how much money I made. I’ve always thought a Salary was pretty cut and dry, but to hear them “spin” reality, I actually made twice as much as my paycheck reflected due to all the benefits the company provides.

Politicians are also famous for this. John Kerry cracked me up when he was running for the Presidency. The man had a life-long record of being a far left, socially liberal, anti-war activist and he and his team tried to peddle the line that he was going to “kick ass and take names” in the war on terror. And I won’t leave out Bush either, let’s not forget his famous landing on the Aircraft Carrier with the banner unfurled in the background stating “Mission Accomplished”. It’s been a couple of years since that incident and American’s are still arriving home in body-bags. Oh, or how about the famous line “I’m a uniter, not a divider. That worked out real well, huh?

Some of you may be old enough to remember when Michael Dukakis was running for President. The man was actually doing very well in that particular election until one of his people decided the polls showed America thought him soft on defense. They dress him up all G.I. Joe and snap this photo of him in a tank. Back then, American’s were smart enough to see right through this kind of B.S. and summarily slapped him down like an obnoxious school boy. The photograph is widely considered to be one of the worse public relations disasters in know history!

So anyhoo, this whole rant I’m on is leading up to this story I just came across. Read it then tell me if you’ve ever come across such a silly piece of nonsense in your entire life. And also, please take note that they are presenting this information almost as if it were fact and “dressing it up” with lots of big words and scientific terms to make it sound plausible.

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