Driving into the black night, I was listening to the hopelessly-retrograde "Jason Lewis Show" on 650 AM KSTE. Tonight's show was all about the supposed dangers of allowing card check into America's workplaces, making it easier to unionize them.
These appeals to the supposedly-independent working man leave me cold, particularly when compared to the blood-curdling stories out there regarding union-busting underway right now. For example, the situation in Boron, CA is a nightmare, and it's not very far away from here, and no one ever talks about it!
But I digress. What caught my attention was that so many of the advertisements were actually Public Service Announcements from the Feds: get your kids immunized for H1N1 says the CDC; sign up for Selective Service if you turn 18; be prepared for disasters says FEMA.
There was an ad from Overeaters Anonymous, which, even if it's not a non-profit group, likely doesn't have the deepest pockets (interestingly, it seems based in Rio Rancho, NM, not far from my old stomping grounds). There were also ads from computer folks promising to rid your computer of malware (if you've bookmarked this Web Site, too late!) Still, from the private sector, slim pickings for talk radio!
Conservative talk radio fans may yearn for action against the feds, but the feds are paying the bills, so I don't know how all that is going to shake out.
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