Face Time and Diminished Value
I’ve been working out at the gym for almost 6 weeks now, every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday morning. At the gym, they have TV’s all over the place, showing music videos, local news, national news and maybe some shows. The news station they have it turned to is MSNBC. I can tell you who they want for President.
I don’t really get to listen to the audio, so I have to go off of what I see. And what do I see? Hillary Clinton. A LOT more than all the other candidates, both Democrat and Republican combined. It’s definitely media propoganda at its’ best. This morning, for example (I could read the sub-titles) they were doing a story on how Barrack Obama has surged ahead of Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire. Guess who’s face wasn’t shown ONCE during the minute long story. Obama. The entire time they were going over that story they showed clip after clip after clip of Hillary Clinton. This is how it is every day, she gets 90% of the face time on TV. It’s disgusting.
Why does McDonald’s always seem to stay on top of the Fast Food? The Play Place. Where do kids want to go eat? The place with the Red and Yellow colors and the Play Place. Then those kids grow up, but they’ve been subconsciously choosing McDonald’s their entire life, so they keep it. So it is with Political Candidates and the Media. Whoever’s face they plaster the most will be the one that voters pick when they haven’t done a lick of investigating the candidates; they’ll pick the name that they have been sub-consciously spammed with. The Media is pathetic, I hardly believe any story they propogate to the public. Someday they need to be held responsible for that.
I cashed a check for $600 today, I’m kinda happy about that. I filed a diminished value claim on my car for the accident from June. Now that it’s been hit it’s not worth full face value; an accident will do that to you. However, that ‘Diminished Value’ check isn’t given unless you ask. And on top of asking you have to provide all sorts of documentation, get an independant appraisal and then wait to see what they give you. This is something you deserve to be paid out on; having the insurance cover repairs is not getting everything you should. Lesson? If you’re hit, be sure to file a diminished value claim. Don’t miss out on that money eh!
