Americans. They've got it alllllll figured out. Capitalism. Freedom. Liberty and justice for all.... or at least those affluent enough to afford health insurance....
I don't understand the mentality surrounding the debate down south. I've tried to understand the "don't want to pay for lazy sods" argument, but it simply rings too... icky. What the hell is wrong with people?!?!?!?!
Growing up in Canada, I have difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that there are many rich people in the United States who have made their fortunes off of screwing sick people. And no one has rioted?! How?! Why not?! What is it in the American psyche that says this is "correct"? Not only correct, actually, but morally *right*? The idea that there is profit to be made off of someone's terrible misfortune is nauseating. There are a lot of people relying on that profit too! From the HMO CEOs to Joe Schmoe who has mutual funds in his 401K that include insurance company stocks. It's big business and Wall Street depends on those profits. From a distance, I guess maybe it's easier to gloss over. So then, is it all really so wrong? Well, yes. Down to its' very core, it is inherently wrong. The fact of the matter is millions of people's quality of life has severely suffered because of the existing system structure. That's not okay in a country that seems to think they're the best on Earth.
The following is a joke... kinda. The creator of the video (one of three he's made), Randall Terry, radio host stated, " That which is ridiculous deserves to be ridculed. In that spirit, we offer these pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia comic videos to mock the evildoers who are trying to make us their slave labour force. Some people will laugh, others will be heartily offended, and the KKK will say 'Amen!'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgpwz4-5Cwc
I guess I'm closer to offended, but I laugh at the lengths these people are going trying to discredit what they know in their hearts is the only proper way. Man, are they scared! They just don't know what to do with themselves now that Bush is finally banished. It's *so* ridiculous, this idea that everyone should be medically cared for with no regard to class? They have to resort to the KKK and Hitler to make sure "rational" people couldn't possibly think it's a good idea? Don't they know that the second you drag Hitler into a "rational" debate, you've lost? It's simply poor tactics. Not to mention ridiculous.
I hear what so many of the right crazies and not-so-crazies are saying to bash Canada and our health care system. We're just a bunch of socialist communist who want to make people hand every hard earned dollar back to the government. How sublime it must be to be so mind-numbingly ignorant? You'd think with our country being so near and dear to them, that they'd know a thing or two about us... like, we're not Nazis... but apparently, not so! Taking care of our sick and dying equates us to Hitler. That's cool. Totally neighbourly and kind. Really?!? Assholes. Why is it we insist on staying friends with these people? Oh yeah... money. I guess we haven't succumbed completely to that devil, socialism afterall.
I *know* that this is not all of America speaking. I know many Americans, and they aren't the people I lump into this category and generalize about what selfish pieces of crap they are. I don't think there's a person in the country who could look a recently-denied former-policy holder in the eye and tell them it doesn't suck or that it's Right what's been done to them. No one is that ethically bankrupt! Hell, I mean, Obama got a lot of votes! That's encouraging!
I truly believe that if this Bill passes, it will become one of the most defining moments in American history. Certainly one of the very most important things to come out of the first decade of the 21st century. Yes, that includes the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or 9/11. Americans have the opportunity to finish this decade from hell on a positive note. They have a chance to prove to the world that humanity and compassion matter and are crucial to founding a world that yearns for peace. This next year can't help but set the tone for the rest of the century to come. I hope that they realize how close they are to the precipice. If this past decade hasn't proven it to them, that *they* and their psyche are the world's inhibitor to peace, nothing will. Looking out for Number 1 doesn't do anyone much good in the long run. I wish I believed the majority of Yanks were intelligent enough to know that. Unfortunately, the last three months of townhalls seem to prove otherwise. Much to the world's chagrin.
I sincerely hope this Barak fella can pull this off in the end. So far he's weak out of the gate. Well, if by weak I mean not sinking to all-time lows like his opponents have. I'm honestly not sure how you're supposed to win against those people. I'm not so much of an idealist to believe the honesty of the argument alone could ever win against such dirty politics. There is so much vested interest in keeping the poor down. It's hard to compete with that kind of money and influence. I hope for America's sake that it's not *too* hard. If anyone can do it, this guy can.
Maybe if he's lucky, he'll have a grand-son who plays a counter-terrorism agent on TV... maybe the right will like him then?
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