Are We Really That Stupid? Apparently So
It’s a rant day today. Actually this has been ranting around in my brain for more than a day and today just happens to be the day it comes pouring out.
I am SO angry at the manipulation of insurance and pharmaceutical companies and the inherent opposition to any proposed solution to bail this country out of the HUGE mess the former President and Company put us in – and yes it was him do not even try to tell me otherwise – that I am hoping, nay praying, that for those of you thinking health care reform means “pulling the plug on your grandmother” or some such idiotic nonsense, that you’ll be SENSIBLE ENOUGH to actually watch this.
In fact, all you Fox News fans, I dare you to watch this clip:
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The most sensible thing I’ve read lately is this Letter to the Editor written by a local Henderson woman. I am quoting it in its entirety because for god’s sake all of us just waiting for things to magically happen for us (isn’t that what got us in this mess to begin with thanks to Bush, Cheney, and company?!? yes!), and for those who amazingly seem to believe anything their party tells them (yes I’m talking to Republicans or at least some – and remember I’m actually a registered Republican but that’s another story and NO I did not go the McCain/Palin way more than a half year ago) listen up because this woman, in a nutshell, expresses everything even our elected officials (and this time I’m talking to all you USELESS Democrats elected to office overwhelmingly this term, you bunch of idiots!!!) don’t have the GUTS to pull off (and here 70+ percent of the country believed YOU would make a difference – HA!):
Angry at industry’s misguided pawns
I hear there is “angry opposition” to health care reform.
Well, I’m angry, too, because these so-called angry opponents, in their zeal to “break” President Barack Obama at any cost, risk cheating themselves and the rest of us out of needed change and our very survival.
Please don’t refer to the town hall spectacles as “vigorous debate.” Unlike serious people who have real questions, concerns and suggestions, the “disrupters” have only been manipulated by the status quo forces (the insurance/pharma companies and lobbyists) to disrupt town meetings and unnerve legislators, to keep legitimate concerns and issues from being discussed. They prefer to scare people with outright lies.
If you don’t want your doctor to be reimbursed for counseling you on “end-of-life” decisions, then execute a living will yourself to make your wishes known.
If you don’t want “socialized medicine,” protest the Veterans Affairs system, our only health service that is in fact owned and operated by the U.S. government.
If you want fewer insurance benefits for more money, oppose a public option that would keep your insurance company honest and efficient.
The disrupters don’t seem to fear losing their insurance with their jobs, or worry that their employers will stop subsidizing their insurance, or that an insurance company bureaucrat will tell them they can’t have a procedure, or that a preexisting condition will disqualify them for coverage, or that high premiums and co-pays will force them into bankruptcy.
If we lose this chance to fix health care in America, it will be because the disrupters put their narrow political interests and the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies ahead of the best interests of the American people. We cannot let them!
(For privacy’s sake I am not putting in the woman’s name)
With 10% (or more most likely because a lot of people have run out of benefits) unemployment in this country and more states so underwater we’ll all need diving bells in the very near future just to breath, I am inflamed that so few can influence the outcome for so many.
How dare you Democratic’s sit there in Washington cringing and crippling not only yourselves but the rest of the country and LETTING THE SAME THING HAPPEN AGAIN.
Frankly, I HAD faith that the current President and his staff and Congress could finally pull off fixing the biggest challenges our country faces and put us back on course. Now, I sit here ashamed FOR THEM for not sticking to their guns. At the moment to hell with “bi-partisanship!” Just do what you were elected to do.
This country needs SERIOUS help willingly given by SERIOUS people. For god’s sake open your eyes and think and act with the brain given to you!
Here’s one more quoted Letter to the Editor (again written to our local paper by another local woman with a brain on her shoulders – and no I’m not putting in her name – though I’m sure neither of them would mind if I did):
Obama’s critics have selective memory
Many people are upset with President Barack Obama over the current conditions. Wow, what short memories!
Where was the anger in 2002 when the previous administration took a trillion-dollar surplus and began squandering it on tax breaks for big oil companies posting unprecedented profits, then started a war that was suppose to be paid for with Iraqi oil revenue?
The result of these actions was the precipitous rise in the price of oil (almost 400 percent) while the U.S. Treasury was drained of its surplus and plunged into debt by the cost of this unjustified war. The war cost is ongoing and the total treasure expended in lives is, as the commercials say, “priceless.”
Now the anger and the blame for the busted economy and tanked real estate get heaped on the current administration while it tries to right the ages-old wrong of poor, costly and unfair health care in this country. For many of us, this anger is eight years too late.
I’ll leave my rant – for now – with just this… ALL YOU TEMPORARY PUBLIC SERVANTS IN WASHINGTON – THE PRESIDENT INCLUDED WAKE UP AND DO YOUR PROPER AND RIGHTFUL DUTY TO THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE.
I’m disgusted with the lot of you!
I love your passion and the fact you are speaking up. I hope MANY will read this and take some action.
Hi Janet! Thanks! I’m furious (I guess that’s obvious). So I also modified the settings for the blog since I don’t always strictly stick to internet marketing strategies LOL! But really, I cannot believe what some people believe without looking at both sides. I have listened to Fox, and frankly I just sit there laughing (or else I’d be crying) at what passes for “news.”
I think we all need to pay attention to what is going on.
Hear, hear! And engage brains while doing so….!
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thank you for your rant….i agree 100%
fox news is a fraud…. period.
What’s scary is yesterday I read another article and it’s the opposition getting the senior citizen’s all riled up that’s creating the problem – there are so MANY baby boomers. And frankly, and this is NOT meant unkindly I assure you, the brain is one of the first things to start slipping. Fear is wrong. Facts are facts, most of the world’s leading countries run some type of government-backed health care and they LOVE IT.
Couldn’t agree with you more. Something good for the people needs to happen soon. Health care would be a good place to start!
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I am SO tempted to start another rant so I think I will just say “thank you Barbara!” and leave it at that… this is so friggin’ senseless – just get the job done in Washington that a vast majority clearly told the world, “this is what we want!” last year… Ah … sorry, guess a bit more ranting slipped out…
Our congressman had a town hall meeting on health care this week, and all he did was rile up the senior citizens but telling them that they won’t have any more medicaid if the health plan passes. It really angered me to listen to him. I don’t think anyone in the opposition has actually read the bill. I think they’re just against it because a Democrat proposed it.
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You know anyone who can continue to collect pensions after serving even the shortest of terms might not be the best people to be making our decisions for us. Where else can you work a temp job and continue to collect benefits for the rest of your life? Maybe we should all seek jobs in Washington, then at least we’d get something – finally – for ourselves. This whole thing is so stupid I can feel myself climbing up onto the soapbox yet again…. grrrrr…..