Merry Christmas, we have Health Care Reform! Like most people I do not yet have a complete understanding of it yet. And like most Leftist, I have sinking doubts that it is all I want; more than doubts - I am pretty sure this is not the reform of my dreams.
But make NO mistake..... I am delighted that we have done SOMETHING! I am encouraged we have made strides. There has to be SOMETHING good in there based on how tight the Republicans underwear has gotten!
I am older now and maybe someday I will be wiser. The Stones said it best:
You can't always get what you want
But if you try real hard you just might get what you need.
We didn't get what I wanted. No "One Payer System", No Public Option. But you know something, we did get what we needed. We got something. Like 100 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, it is a start!
Am I disappointed that schmucks like Lieberman (sp?) acted more like Republicans ( I cannot stand to even see that smug asshole speak); yeah.
And it it just me, or are the Republicans looking like giant babies on the playground. If I hear them say "our health care system is not good, it needs reform but no one will listen to us" one more time I will scream. Do not get me started on McStain.
How can we live in a country that takes 12.4% (do not forget the match) of most every dollar a working man makes to a retirement fund but will not step up and pay for medical.
Is the Republican strategy to take our money for a retirement that will never come because they are counting on us to not live to see 65?
Just a warning and a side note to my children in the spirit of full disclosure, I have already started the process on indoctrinating Eli and Abby into wonderful Leftists and socialists - just try and stop me.
5 comments:
Indoctrination is the right word; if the collapse of communism in the early 1990s taught us anything it's that the people in communist countries rarely know how joyful the lives of free people truly are. Only because their benevolent 'leaders' told them everything they needed and wanted to the point where they couldn't distinguish the difference. We live in the best country on the planet and right now its all at stake. Freedom truly is the only way to live life, once you cut off the nipple of anonymous government support provided by the omnipotent state, a whole wealth of opportunity opens. When the state becomes so large that individuals have no option but to live off of 'it,' you have reached the end of free choice and capitulated to what 'they' give you. However, if you wish to give up your free choice and instead fill in your government option, why not just move to Cuba or China? Clearly their people enjoy it, but wait, if they didn't how would we know? They're not allowed to question it or leave without authorization...
As Thomas Jefferson put it:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take it all away."
Pete
Or i might go real crazy and go to one of those other hideous counties like Canada, or England or France, Sweden, Norway. People in those countries suffer tremendously every day under the oppressive sentence of nationalized health care. Why things in those countries are so bad that crime is less and they have to LIVE longer.
But aside of that, how come people in England HAVE dental coverage but their teeth are so bad???
Peter, I love America, but the one thing the Republicans have to tone down is the competitiveness of capitalism. If we have an all spoils go to the winner mentality it is great (maybe too great) for the winners, but there is inevitably losers; and I feel pity for the people that go through life knowing they are on the Kansas City Royals and they have NO HOPE of ever winning or achieving.
Government is the ONLY solution to evening the playing field. We cannot let people who cannot compete suffer needlessly.
Winning should not yield SO much and Losing should not be as horrible as it now is in America.
And Peter, one more thing.
I know some people just do not HAVE a chance, but many, many others did and do and could have a chance.
There ARE people who are lazy assholes, who want to sit on their ass and do nothing. I feel sorry for them, but yes my solution is to just pay them off and be done with it. They will be crappy members of ANY society.
If we just pay them off and get rid of them just think how nice it will be to get your license renewed without dealing with them.
I'd rather let them fail on their own freedom. I think a society that labels individuals as failures and forces its services upon them says little about the strife in humanity. Utopia does not exist. Our forefathers set out to create "a more perfect union" and in doing so created a place that the world cannot ignore because it is so powerful and prosperous. On the other hand, Marx and Engels set out to create a utopia which in turn enslaved and sentenced to death more people that were killed in the Holocaust and WWII.
Without failure there cannot be success. In order to succeed, one must fail. Countless successful individuals in this country failed many times before ever tasting the glory of victory. Yourself included.
In addition to that I don't want to pay higher taxes, 35% is more than enough. If we keep giving government more of our money then there is no incentive to spend responsibly. I don't believe you want to pay higher taxes either.
...and to respond to your point about Canada, England, and western European countries; they're systems only work because the United States' free market exists. Our free markets subsidize the creation medicine and medical procedures that allow for their low prices and operating costs. 8 of the 10 best medical schools in the world are in the US.
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