stop government advertising!
Shayne is only 21 but already she is sick to death of taxpayer funded government advertising – particularly the grossly expensive ‘nanny’ advertisements that our cash-strapped public health system trots out with alarming regularity that nobody pays any attention to.
"Thousands of people are in long waiting lists for all manner of urgent surgeries and medications and I can’t believe that we allow the government to waste millions on this health advertising crap," says Shayne. "Where do these people get off? Has the government no sense of perspective?"
"I am appalled that governments everywhere spend so much money preaching to us about sinful stuff – smoking, drinking, driving, gambling, drugs, sex, overeating, etc – and in bombarding us with these ‘health’ advertisements they are, in effect, advertising the stuff to us!”
“At the same time," says Shayne, "governments rake in millions from taxing these ‘sins’; then they increase the consumption of alcohol by legislating for 24/7 liquor outlets; and, thanks to the War on Terror, the poppy fields of Afghanistan are once again back in full bloom and our kids are dying on the killing fields over there as well as in heroin overdoes at home."
"Hello? Am I the only person to put two and two together?"
"Anti-sin propaganda is really advertising the ‘sin’, make no mistake about it," says Shayne. "Any publicity, good or bad, IS publicity and keeps the product in the minds of consumers."
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education or propaganda?
gory tobacco ads
anti-smoking propaganda or hook?
two-faced health warnings
"Thousands of people are in long waiting lists for all manner of urgent surgeries and medications and I can’t believe that we allow the government to waste millions on this health advertising crap," says Shayne. "Where do these people get off? Has the government no sense of perspective?"
"I am appalled that governments everywhere spend so much money preaching to us about sinful stuff – smoking, drinking, driving, gambling, drugs, sex, overeating, etc – and in bombarding us with these ‘health’ advertisements they are, in effect, advertising the stuff to us!”
“At the same time," says Shayne, "governments rake in millions from taxing these ‘sins’; then they increase the consumption of alcohol by legislating for 24/7 liquor outlets; and, thanks to the War on Terror, the poppy fields of Afghanistan are once again back in full bloom and our kids are dying on the killing fields over there as well as in heroin overdoes at home."
"Hello? Am I the only person to put two and two together?"
"Anti-sin propaganda is really advertising the ‘sin’, make no mistake about it," says Shayne. "Any publicity, good or bad, IS publicity and keeps the product in the minds of consumers."
Read more from Shayne on this subject:
Labels: drinking, driving, drugs, gambling, government advertising, health, nanny, overeating, sex, sins
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