As the wealthiest nation in the world we once routinely cried “God Bless America” but what happens when God curses us? ENRON, 911, Terrorism and Goldman Sachs…
Why do we hang on to every word of these politicians when it is their every word that keeps us in the dark about what is really going on. Have “we the people” forgotten that we are the government?
I just don’t get it with many Americans and these so called “conservatives” when it comes to the health care problems many people are having in this country.
First off, many of the naysayers who are against the current health care reform probably have never been sick, nor have they ever been bankrupted due to a serious medical catastrophe. These same people have no idea how inadequate their health insurance really is and will be in for some shock when they go to use the plan, how quickly they can be denied services or cancelled outright.
I also love how these same people try to blame the person who is sick that is somehow their fault, whether it is the way the eat, maybe their problems stem from drug use, or just the fact that the person was to lazy to get an education and get out and get a good job. How ironic they use the same excuses when they in fact have no clue what the persons education level is, how hard they may have worked, how much they have put into the bank to retire on, etc, etc, etc.
As a 3 time cancer survivor, a well educated American, and someone who had (with a dual income) just less than $200,000 per year income with close to $100,000 in the bank with so called “excellent” health care benefits, how quickly I learned how broken our entire health care system really is. All that money we had in the bank was gone within a few short months, I was completely disabled, 401K drained, and denied any state benefits, even though I had paid into the system for many years.
After almost 2 years of needing medical services, not one company wanted to hire me because of the cost risk when it came to supplying me with health care benefits. My rates went from $180 per month to $2,500 per month and that did not cover any cancer or heart care whatsoever. Tell me, which corporation do you know could afford this extra monthly expense, and how many people do you personally know that could afford a health care premium of $30,000 per year?
The only thing I am really hearing from the republicans is that they want to cap all lawsuits which will take away the citizens right in a court of law, especially for those who truly have the right to sue. They want to keep an unregulated market protected while the citizens of this country are bent over time and time again, and complain that socialism is taking over this country. They are screaming death panels, and many other lies just to stop any type of health care reform that will actually help the American people.
In the richest country in the world, we can find money for war after war after war, we can find money for almost anything, but we cannot find a dime to help the American people with health care reform. Let me ask you how much money you think this country wasted fighting health care reform, or better yet, trying to impeach Clinton for a sexual act? Boy, sure do have the money for that, but nothing for the tax payers.
Since the republicans seem to be nothing more than war mongers, maybe we should just start picking up the sick people and let them be used for target practice! That right there will not only save this country billions of dollars, it will also allow these conservatives to have their much needed bloodshed, and maybe then, with mommy gone, the family can go ahead and purchase the family a Thanksgiving Day turkey, save their home, or maybe buy their kids a Christmas gift this year.
Are the Republicans really as dumb as some people think? Makes you wonder when you look at their candidates for the last presidential election, and I am not saying this in a condescending way either. I do not think that this was their initial game plan, but as the economy started to crash, I think their main goal was to actually lose the presidential elections and here is why.
First off I think McCain was the most respectable of all the republican candidates for the Republican Party. I may not agree with him 100% but at least the man has a good record and stands his ground. I do not think the people had it wrong when they chose him over the other republican candidates to run for president.
We all knew way before John McCain announced Sarah Palin that the economy was in trouble, the wars were out of hand, and America was facing severe turmoil with the political division we were seeing in this country. During this time, many republicans had turned their backs on George Bush and were completely disgusted with the way he was handling the country.
I also believe that the last administration knew long before the announcement that the economy was ready to bottom out. So why did John McCain choose Sarah Palin as a running mate for the presidential election? There were so many other options John McCain could of chosen but why on earth did he choose her? I think the Republican Party strategized this so John McCain would of intentionally lost the election in fear of losing more and more voters.
If America was going down because the economy was going to crash, and the 2 wars were basically at a loss with no real exit strategy, why should these 2 things happen on the Republican watch? If anything, why not hand the election over to the Democrats so the economy could crash and the wars could be lost on their watch, so when 2010 and 2012 comes along, they could act like the saviors for the country, gain control of the senate, the house, and the office of the president, when in fact, they caused both problems for this country. We all know how forgetful Americans are and all the Republican Party needed was a scapegoat to once again take control of the government.
To me Sarah Palin was an expandable political figure because she was in fact a nobody at that time and if anything, her political career was nothing in the eyes of the Republican Party so they used this woman to literally lose the presidential election so they could come back a few years later save this country from the failures they set up for the Democratic Party.
Sorry Sarah Palin, you were a tool for your political party, your high hopes were shot all to hell and you didn’t even know it.
