Businesses pay tremendous amounts of money to advertise their products. There are many methods advertisers use to lure us to buy the products they are being paid to promote: billboards, radio, television, on-line ads, direct mail, posters, handouts, magazines, newspapers, celebrity endorsements, background in movies, race car decals, phone solicitors, product logos on clothing, major event sponsorship, names on arenas and stadia, etc.
Everyone advertises and we are constantly bombarded by it. Do these methods really work? Are we checked for colon cancer because a talking cardboard box sitting on a toilet tells us to do so? Do we buy insurance because a seedy looking person named "mayhem" tells us to protect ourselves from him and people like him? Do we buy cars because an animated character with a human voice tells us to do so? Do we contribute to charities which tug at our heartstrings by showing neglected or abused animals, children with terrible illnesses or deformities? Do we use lawyers who promise to deliver substantial damage awards from alleged negligent drivers, alleged negligent doctors or hospitals, alleged unscrupulous drug companies or alleged negligent other lawyers, police, or our government itself
With so much negativism in so many areas of our life, it's sad that we have to realize that there are a lot of people trying to lure us into places and products which are trying to take from us quickly what we have worked so hard and long to amass. Hackers, identity thieves, muggers, crank callers, dishonest claims, cheaters and outright liars. An endless list of people trying to see how stupid they can make us act. Sad.......sad.......sad.
About a week ago, I received a call from a New Mexico area code, telling me they were the IRS, I had four outstanding warrants for my arrest, and I better call them immediately or I would be rounded up and subject to "who knows what". I may not be the brightest person, but do "they" really take me to be that stupid...........?
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