Posted by Tina
Someone’s having a bit of fun with the old hopey changey poster from the 2008 election. The artist doesn’t mind this new rendition since the original was a rip off from an AP photo. IBD has the story and quotes from original artist, Shepard Fairey:
“I originally supported Obama vigorously because his proclaimed policy positions aligned with my beliefs.
“I have never been an unconditional Obama supporter or cheerleader, so I’m pleased to see people subvert my Obama images as a way to critique him and demonstrate the wide gap between some of his promises and actions……
“I agree that Obama needs to be called out on an NSA program that over-reaches to the extreme and shouldn’t be secret.”
How’s that hope and change working out for America?
Scanning leads to data mining and data mining leads to votes!
TownHall:
The extremists in control of the Democrat Party will stoop to anything to secure power OVER the American people.
If it were not so diabolical I would give them kudos for creative campaigning. Deceptive data mining for votes… ingeniously clever.
According to this article by the ACLU written in April, before Snowden exposed the NSA data-mining, 70-77% young people 18 to 35 that “no one should ever be allowed to have access to my personal data or web behavior.” The poll was conducted by USC’s corporate-partnered center for the Digital Future.
Note worthy also is the ACLU published this article and it was poll was done at a liberal California university. The Democrats just may have a problem at the polls in 2012. Let’s hope so!! (Of course it would be a conspiracy therapy to suggest why we didn’t hear about this poll or why it appears to not be found by the author.)
Do Young People Care About Privacy?:
Everywhere I go, I hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe is “just true.” The latest claim to this effect comes in the form of a new poll, the release of which was trumpeted with unfortunate headlines like “Millennials don’t worry about online privacy.”
In fact, the poll, which was conducted by the University of Southern California’s corporate-partnered Center for the Digital Future, showed no such thing. Although there were some differences between younger and older respondents, they were not nearly dramatic enough to warrant such headlines. I’ve been unable to find the poll itself and its methodology online, but the Annenberg Center press release summarizing those findings reports that:
Both Millennials (ages 18-34) and over-35 people believe in large numbers (70% and 77%, respectively, with a 3.1% margin of error) that “no one should ever be allowed to have access to my personal data or web behavior.”
Only 25% of Millennials agreed with the statement, “I’m ok with trading some of my personal information in exchange for more relevant advertising.” Among the over-35 set, it was 19%.
The most dramatic difference found was that 56% of Millennials would share their location with companies in exchange for coupons or deals, compared to 42% of the over-35 population. That’s still nearly half who did not agree that they would do so.
The poll found that Millennials are more frequent users of social networking sites, 48% vs. 20% of the over-35 population. That’s (a) hardly a surprise, and (b) hardly prima facie evidence of a lack of concern about privacy.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/do-young-people-care-about-privacy
M.IT World link:
http://m.itworld.com/it-management/353511/millennials-do-care-about-internet-privacy-they-re-just-smarter-about-it?mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.itworld.com%252Fit-management%252F353511%252Fmillennials-do-care-about-internet-privacy-they-re-just-smarter-about-it%26h%3D_AQEi23Nu%26s%3D1
Interesting information Peggy. The next election should give us some idea about how those who vote think now that it has been shown that the radicals of the Democrat Party will stoop to snooping, collecting personal data, and sicking the IRS on opponents and perceived “enemies”. I hope the bulk of young people are waking up.
Tina it is important to keep our words positive, because our words become behavior. where I believe Post Scripts is beneficial is the positive messages we share about ones potential self worth. If nothing else it enlightens people to the unrestrictive benefits of individual effort verse the trap of entitlements programs. We continue to make people aware that Large Government is purposely designed to keep people Dependant on public assistance. There is a sad similarity to that and dealing with stray animals. Feeding them only seems to encourage them to come back. There is a strong message in the Poster above, but I think the words on the poster should read … “Yes We Scam”
The scale has tipped putting more people in the cart than are pulling it.
More Get Federal Food Aid Than Work In Private Sector:
Obamanomics 101: The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government exceeds 101 million – more people than are employed in the private sector.
As reported by cnsnews.com, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people – roughly a third of the U.S. Population – currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private-sector workers in 2012 – which means that the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of private sector workers in the U.S.
Of the 101 million receiving food benefits, a record 47 million Americans participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. The USDA describes SNAP as the “largest program in the domestic hunger safety net.”
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/07/63976-obamanomics-more-americans-on-food-stamps-than-work-in-private-sector/
Peggy: Oh great…it was bound to happen. We’re so screwed, we slept right through the time for revolution and now look what we’re stuck with! -Jack