Perspectives: Sam’s Perspective – Trust

I’m Sam Jones.

Here is today’s question:   Who do you trust?   Better still, who can you trust?   What about news and information?   It would be foolish to get all your news from one source.  So, hopefully your news comes from not just television, but newspapers as well, and with a healthy sprinkling of news magazines.   Now I know you are busy but it is important, if you want to be fully informed, to look for news and not opinion.  What I’m doing here, right now, is opinion,…mine. But its based on information from newspapers, television and respected magazines and journals.  For entertainment I might listen to Rush or watch Fox News from time to time but again, that’s for entertainment not real news or information.  If you look to CNN for news and information, be careful.  This once proud network is now chasing the dollar, in other words its hard to know what’s news and what’s really just the slant of the day. The big three networks are pretty safe buy you have to know that Fox swings one way and MSNBC swings the other.

And while I’m at it, where do you get your religious booster shot?  Do you go to church or synagogue or mosque or do you stay home and pull your religion from folks that want to send you oil or a piece of cloth , you can expect to receive a windfall of money with if you use it correctly or use to cure just about anything?   Not saying anything is wrong with that, what I am saying is you need to decide if ‘you’ are doing the praying or if you are caught up in some sort of religious co-dependency.

Right now we are caught up in a state budget crisis and a national election cycle. No matter which way we turn we are being faced with a fork in the road, a choice we have to make.  So,… who do we trust to get through it and what’s the best solution for the state and the nation?   There are no easy answers even though it might appear so.  The so called debates are no help for me because they aren’t really debates, they’re nothing more than reality tv.  Advertising won’t work on me either.  I can tell you what I base my decisions on but you are free to come up with your own methods.   I read a great deal, newspapers and news magazines.   I also look to the three major television networks for updates.    Because of my age I’m also able to rely on past experience.   Which party, candidate or budget decision, stands  a better chance of helping the people of the state or the nation as a whole.   But more than anything else I question the trust issue.   Meaning, I also question my sources, which causes further investigation on my part.   Keep in mind, you have only one vote so spend it wisely.  Henry Clay once said, “Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.”

That’s my perspective.