Kevin's Comments - Perception as Reality

Perhaps if health-care reform had been called: "The Pledge to Keep America Healthy" it would have been perceived differently by RWGOPTP, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, all of its detractors and the American people who were clearly confused by the enormity of its intent to bring affordable health-care to all Americans.

But if "death panels" perpetrated by the United State government could be perceived as reality than what hope does reality have to ever be perceived as truth.

Perception is not reality unless you are suffering from a schizophrenic break... and those men in dark suits going through your garbage, listening to your phone conversations, auditing your Internet activity, poisoning your food, climbing through the duct work in your hospital room, are real because you perceive them to be real.

When first confounded by this statement in a meeting with a superior, I noticed perception as reality worked only in her favor. When I suggested my perceptions contradicted hers, but were equally as grounded in reality it was not received well. I was also "laid off" within the year... coincidence? I think not!

One of the many problems with passing off perception as reality is how easily it can bite you in the butt. Mitt Romney suggesting he is also "out of work" and somehow the perception of a multi-millionaire out work is the same reality as the multi-millions of middle-class out of work.

A greater perception of 'corporations are people' can't possibly be lost on the 98% of Americans whose reality is grounded to understand that people are not corporations and corporations are not people. Romney's "corporations are people, my friend" dogmatic perception will prove as unrealistic even to Romney when all is said and done November 6th, 2012.

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not him again...

Winston Churchill said: "[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."

Finally, a man I can agree with and a perception of truth that I can embrace.

Unlike, Michele Bachmann's claim she can get gas prices under $2.00... she would need to embrace a strong American Energy policy and a "bigger government" spending program. Excessive speculation raised gas prices to $4.16/gal under Geroge W Bush July 2008. Regulating gas speculation on Wall Street is the answer. Is Michele Bachmann going to support regulation to get gas down to $2.00/gallon? Her perception of reality holds no truth and her reality sorely lacks perception.

"Live truth instead of professing it." ~ Elbert Hubbard

Fiction has to make sense." ~ Mark Twain

In Rick Perry's stranger than fiction search for truth, Perry believes the Civil Rights movement is similar to the movement to reduce the size of government and not taxing the wealthy or corporations. His perception of being a great American is to contract a Spanish consortium to build and operate sections of the massive Texan toll road expansion.

Rick Perry has become a millionaire while on the public payroll... 97% of Texas' shortfall was plugged by stimulus money... Texas ranks 44th in the USA in per-student expenditures and 43rd in high school graduation rates... the Texas Legislature slashed more than $4 billion in funding for public schools the next two years, a move that's likely to lead to tens of thousands of teacher layoffs... (Read more: http://meetrickperry.com/ )

Clearly, Rick Perry's truth is fiction... which proves Mark Twain never met the "fiction that doesn't make sense" of Governor Perry.

"Three years after Gov. Rick Perry's biggest real estate score, questions persist about whether the governor benefited from favoritism, backroom dealing and influence-buying."

The larger truth about truth is that it doesn't speak in the louder voice, but does live the longer life. ~ Kevin L Kalmes