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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Read your local news stories and it will give you a whole new perspective on reality.
National news sites give you the sensationalized news while your local news websites
reminds you that people everywhere are just pure shit in general.
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I've said this time and time again - national politics has little impact on the lives of American citizens.
Taxes go up, taxes go down, and we do our best to pay as little taxes as possible. Healthcare always goes up. We have had our military deployed in moderately active combat zones for the past sixteen years, and this is unlikely to change, and even this has little impact on the average American. Ebola, Benghazi, the email scandal, our relationships with Mexico, China, Russia, Ukraine, UK, Germany, Philippines, etc... None of this has any impact on the average American.
The economy and jobs are two items which do have an impact on the average American.
But if your garbage isn't picked up on garbage day, well, that's a problem.
Don't laugh. That happened here in our hometown during the recession. Our city workers went on strike, and our garbage wasn't picked up. If you don't pick up garbage once a week, it quickly gets backed up.
This week in California we are expecting to have the "biggest storm in two decades". This might not be a big deal in the rest of the country, but it's a problem here. My local town here nearly went broke spending tens of millions of dollars on year long projects to prevent local flooding. (I really hope this works!). That's what is important to me.
Otherwise, I find national politics comical.