I can list the ways.
Well, you could have a stroke or heart attack arguing with people who don't believe what you do. It could happen.
You could have an illness that wouldn't be covered under government policies or get put in a long line (Canada, Britain) that keeps you in the queue for so long that you die any way.
You could have a government paid for abortion. (0oh don't kid yourself- you are ending a human life- it's human, it's alive- so don't pretend you don't know that).
You could have to work two jobs to pay your taxes to support the people on the dole- stress kills.
You could actually decide your friends who don't agree with you are idiots- then you are friendless and alone and you die from depression. It happens.
I could go on....but you know what? I won't. Because everyone needs to remember that politicians are players- yep even the best of them. They want YOU to think no one else has your interests at heart like they do. But many of the politicians you are aware of don't really care about anything but reelection. It is the biggest gravy train ever-I wish I could run.
So give yourself a present for 2012- don't get so mad. Enjoy your life. Stand up for what you believe in and vote for it- be active with the people you AGREE with. Go to the caucus. Go to the meetings. Share some coffee with the other people who want what you want for America.
There is no such thing as healthy and happy exchange of ideas in politics- nope. It is the ultimate anger maker. SO stick with your buds and stick to your guns. But jeez- take a walk, get off the internet, kiss your spouse. It's way more fun.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I am a Republican
I am a Republican- with libertarian leanings.
This is what I am not:
I am not a bigot. I was raised by a Republican mother who came to the south from Illinois. She would never have tolerated the use of any slang that is what is now called racist. Our maids, and yes we had a maid because that is how black women supported themselves, were treated with respect and were fed and paid appropriately. They were never put on a bus, but were driven to and from their home by my mother or father. My father employed only black men in his business and paid one of them to be manager. Way back in the 50s. In New Orleans. I didn't go to school with black kids until high school and then it was a novelty-but I didn't make those rules.
I am not a religious zealot. Honestly, I sometimes wish I were. I am not even that religious. I believe in God because it gives me comfort, but I don't believe He is involved in my every day life. I don't believe He would care whether or not I win the lottery or that He would cure me of cancer- I am just a human on this planet for whatever reason or no reason at all. But I believe in God because it gives me a sense of purpose and hope. That's enough for me. But deeply religious people have a sense of peace that I can't obtain with my simplistic beliefs.
I am not an elitist. I have money but I didn't always. I worked two jobs to get through college. I paid for my own education and that meant I couldn't be too sensitive about fashion demands. I had 4 dresses and 2 pairs of shoes for all of college, so I majored in nursing and got a uniform to wear on some days. I recycle, eat leftovers, and I don't buy what I really don't need. I have money- but it is because I don't SPEND it! Novel concept, I know. I don't buy what I cannot afford. And I never, ever bought my kids something if I couldn't afford it. NEVER. I can't help if someone thinks I am an elitist because I have a graduate degree, once was an assistant professor in a university and like to read!
I am not disrespectful of human life in any form. I believe that if you took an embryo at ANY age, then sent it in for DNA testing, you would find it has a unique and HUMAN DNA. That makes it human. I believe that from the moment of conception, the new and unique cells are rapidly dividing- dead cells do NOT divide. So what have you got? You have a living human being- its "being" may not be so well established yet, but it is alive If you abort it, you kill it. It is that simple. I wouldn't ban abortion because I guess that killing your child before it is born is better than abusing or killing it later. Just as long as you don't kid yourself on what you have done. Especially now, adoption is an option. I was adopted. Thanks,Sarah, for not aborting me.
I am not an environmental zealot though I believe in clean air and clean water and recycling plastics to save the oceans. I believe the earth is a work in progress, and eventually it will go through a huge upheaval and kill all life forms. I believe that thermal vents in the ocean floor do spew out things that are toxic to our life forms. I believe we are just a few huge eruptions away from have a global winter. I believe we are on the thin crust of a molten planet, and that we puny humans cannot destroy this earth. We can destroy us, but not this planet. We are the ones with hubris. I don't believe that global warming is anything other than the natural progression of our planet, and that we could quit all carbon emissions and still be forced to live through the changes that occur. It might just be our bad luck to be alive during a time of change. One scientific group says one thing, yet another comes out later to refute it. Most recently the Iceland ice shelf melting debacle, So I figure all I can do it keep my personal environment clean and if everyone did the same, we'd all be okay.
I am not a celebrity worshipper. I don't care if Paris Hilton works in a soup kitchen once a year. I don't care if Matt Damon says I should pay more taxes. I don't care if Oprah mows down trees to get a better view. I don't care. I am not part of the cult of celebrity in the US- I find it ironic that in a world of true heroes and brilliant scientists and amazing technology, that we, as a society, put credence in the words of people, many of whom have never completed high school, who read other people's words for a living and are hypocrites. Amazing.
I am not a mean and stingy human who wants everyone to starve. Not at all- I donate to food banks all the time. I donate and volunteer at a collection center for children for the eastside of Seattle. I have donated to AIDS organizations and taken care of and visited my friends who lived and died with AIDS. I have personally given money to people just to keep them afloat- not a loan but a GIFT to help them get their acts together. And by the way, every person I have ever given money to has gone on to restart their lives. I have underwritten children whose parents couldn't afford their music participation. I have funded a nursing scholarship. And this post would be the first time most of my friends would learn this. I love how generous Republicans are in general. My most conservative friends are very active in their church relief programs. I love them for that.
I am not a hypocrite. I don't believe in illegal immigration, and I won't hire an illegal or use a company that does. It's pretty easy to tell. I don't believe that we should keep viewing the world as backwards and third world. It isn't 1900- it is 2011. Governments make choices now- we don't have to save their citizenry. Our revolutionary war was bloody and painful- and so will all revolutions be. By the way, thank you France! It is time to stop most foreign aid and put it into the infrastructure of the US and into saving the people of Appalachia and inner cities. I think if you are an environmental zealot but you smoke and have a dirty bathroom, that you are a hypocrite. I could go on, but I walk my walk.
I am not a corporation hater. Everything in my world that has made my life easier comes from a corporation, including my husband's job. Thanks corporations- you go ahead and make profits and I'll make some money back by buying stock. People say they can't invest but they buy alcohol, cigarettes, iphones, etc. All sorts of stuff they don't need. But they won't invest in their own future. Idiots.
I am not a believer in the sanctity of the "native American". We've done a lot to hurt the 'Indians". They did a lot to hurt us- it was really a war. But we won. Yep. America always gives back when they win, but giving back land to the Indians hurt them and has held them back by not allowing assimilation. Indians are not native to America- they came here from somewhere else also. Get over it. If it hadn't been white Europeans who came here, it would have been Russians or Chinese. No way would this land have have gone unconquered. Sorry if you don't like that. But the stupidity of judging our ancestors for what was normal behavior in the world at that time is ridiculous.
I am not a person who believes we are all equal. I raised kids- genetically alike but nowhere near the same. I can't play for the NBA but I have a gift for sight reading music. I couldn't ever get a PhD in physics but I can cook some wonderful food. I don't believe schools should cater to the least common denominator. I don't believe schools should mainstream children who cannot learn and waste valuable education dollars on them. I think parents should have to pay for their handicapped child's extra care. I don't believe that children who need special tutors for all their needs should be in a regular school slowing down the classroom for the kids who need every ounce of education they can get so they can grow up and pay taxes for the children who will never be able to support themselves. I believe we should recognize and give extra attention to the most succesful children- not the least. It is a bad system when we ignore what is going to make the system better. I'd love to know why NO ONE in my classes in school needed special treatment- but now everyone seems to have a kid with some diagnosis. I think people want to believe there is a reason why their kid isn't the smartest in the class. I once was a substitute school nurse at a small private school- at lunchtime I had a long line out the door for kids to come get their MEDS! All these children were medicated. Many because their parents wanted them to be treated with special care. Well, some kids are noisy, some are fidgety, some are imaginative- they are just kids. School is where most kids learn to sit down and shut up and it takes years to learn that. We are NOT all the same. But it doesn't mean you medicate until you have the results you demand.
I am not a person who believes that poor people can be saved from themselves. There is reason why people are poor, but generations of poverty can cripple the ambitions of children. But America's history has proven that families don't have to stay poor. Many poor families have seen a child go on to great success. Of course, I don't believe in allowing people to starve, but we've gotten to a place where a family of 4 with an income of over $40K a year can get social welfare services. No wonder states are broke. Poverty is a complex problem but until you can make everyone the same IQ and talent, there will be poor.
I could go on, but that's enough for now! I am a Republican, a libertarian and I vote my beliefs.
This is what I am not:
I am not a bigot. I was raised by a Republican mother who came to the south from Illinois. She would never have tolerated the use of any slang that is what is now called racist. Our maids, and yes we had a maid because that is how black women supported themselves, were treated with respect and were fed and paid appropriately. They were never put on a bus, but were driven to and from their home by my mother or father. My father employed only black men in his business and paid one of them to be manager. Way back in the 50s. In New Orleans. I didn't go to school with black kids until high school and then it was a novelty-but I didn't make those rules.
I am not a religious zealot. Honestly, I sometimes wish I were. I am not even that religious. I believe in God because it gives me comfort, but I don't believe He is involved in my every day life. I don't believe He would care whether or not I win the lottery or that He would cure me of cancer- I am just a human on this planet for whatever reason or no reason at all. But I believe in God because it gives me a sense of purpose and hope. That's enough for me. But deeply religious people have a sense of peace that I can't obtain with my simplistic beliefs.
I am not an elitist. I have money but I didn't always. I worked two jobs to get through college. I paid for my own education and that meant I couldn't be too sensitive about fashion demands. I had 4 dresses and 2 pairs of shoes for all of college, so I majored in nursing and got a uniform to wear on some days. I recycle, eat leftovers, and I don't buy what I really don't need. I have money- but it is because I don't SPEND it! Novel concept, I know. I don't buy what I cannot afford. And I never, ever bought my kids something if I couldn't afford it. NEVER. I can't help if someone thinks I am an elitist because I have a graduate degree, once was an assistant professor in a university and like to read!
I am not disrespectful of human life in any form. I believe that if you took an embryo at ANY age, then sent it in for DNA testing, you would find it has a unique and HUMAN DNA. That makes it human. I believe that from the moment of conception, the new and unique cells are rapidly dividing- dead cells do NOT divide. So what have you got? You have a living human being- its "being" may not be so well established yet, but it is alive If you abort it, you kill it. It is that simple. I wouldn't ban abortion because I guess that killing your child before it is born is better than abusing or killing it later. Just as long as you don't kid yourself on what you have done. Especially now, adoption is an option. I was adopted. Thanks,Sarah, for not aborting me.
I am not an environmental zealot though I believe in clean air and clean water and recycling plastics to save the oceans. I believe the earth is a work in progress, and eventually it will go through a huge upheaval and kill all life forms. I believe that thermal vents in the ocean floor do spew out things that are toxic to our life forms. I believe we are just a few huge eruptions away from have a global winter. I believe we are on the thin crust of a molten planet, and that we puny humans cannot destroy this earth. We can destroy us, but not this planet. We are the ones with hubris. I don't believe that global warming is anything other than the natural progression of our planet, and that we could quit all carbon emissions and still be forced to live through the changes that occur. It might just be our bad luck to be alive during a time of change. One scientific group says one thing, yet another comes out later to refute it. Most recently the Iceland ice shelf melting debacle, So I figure all I can do it keep my personal environment clean and if everyone did the same, we'd all be okay.
I am not a celebrity worshipper. I don't care if Paris Hilton works in a soup kitchen once a year. I don't care if Matt Damon says I should pay more taxes. I don't care if Oprah mows down trees to get a better view. I don't care. I am not part of the cult of celebrity in the US- I find it ironic that in a world of true heroes and brilliant scientists and amazing technology, that we, as a society, put credence in the words of people, many of whom have never completed high school, who read other people's words for a living and are hypocrites. Amazing.
I am not a mean and stingy human who wants everyone to starve. Not at all- I donate to food banks all the time. I donate and volunteer at a collection center for children for the eastside of Seattle. I have donated to AIDS organizations and taken care of and visited my friends who lived and died with AIDS. I have personally given money to people just to keep them afloat- not a loan but a GIFT to help them get their acts together. And by the way, every person I have ever given money to has gone on to restart their lives. I have underwritten children whose parents couldn't afford their music participation. I have funded a nursing scholarship. And this post would be the first time most of my friends would learn this. I love how generous Republicans are in general. My most conservative friends are very active in their church relief programs. I love them for that.
I am not a hypocrite. I don't believe in illegal immigration, and I won't hire an illegal or use a company that does. It's pretty easy to tell. I don't believe that we should keep viewing the world as backwards and third world. It isn't 1900- it is 2011. Governments make choices now- we don't have to save their citizenry. Our revolutionary war was bloody and painful- and so will all revolutions be. By the way, thank you France! It is time to stop most foreign aid and put it into the infrastructure of the US and into saving the people of Appalachia and inner cities. I think if you are an environmental zealot but you smoke and have a dirty bathroom, that you are a hypocrite. I could go on, but I walk my walk.
I am not a corporation hater. Everything in my world that has made my life easier comes from a corporation, including my husband's job. Thanks corporations- you go ahead and make profits and I'll make some money back by buying stock. People say they can't invest but they buy alcohol, cigarettes, iphones, etc. All sorts of stuff they don't need. But they won't invest in their own future. Idiots.
I am not a believer in the sanctity of the "native American". We've done a lot to hurt the 'Indians". They did a lot to hurt us- it was really a war. But we won. Yep. America always gives back when they win, but giving back land to the Indians hurt them and has held them back by not allowing assimilation. Indians are not native to America- they came here from somewhere else also. Get over it. If it hadn't been white Europeans who came here, it would have been Russians or Chinese. No way would this land have have gone unconquered. Sorry if you don't like that. But the stupidity of judging our ancestors for what was normal behavior in the world at that time is ridiculous.
I am not a person who believes we are all equal. I raised kids- genetically alike but nowhere near the same. I can't play for the NBA but I have a gift for sight reading music. I couldn't ever get a PhD in physics but I can cook some wonderful food. I don't believe schools should cater to the least common denominator. I don't believe schools should mainstream children who cannot learn and waste valuable education dollars on them. I think parents should have to pay for their handicapped child's extra care. I don't believe that children who need special tutors for all their needs should be in a regular school slowing down the classroom for the kids who need every ounce of education they can get so they can grow up and pay taxes for the children who will never be able to support themselves. I believe we should recognize and give extra attention to the most succesful children- not the least. It is a bad system when we ignore what is going to make the system better. I'd love to know why NO ONE in my classes in school needed special treatment- but now everyone seems to have a kid with some diagnosis. I think people want to believe there is a reason why their kid isn't the smartest in the class. I once was a substitute school nurse at a small private school- at lunchtime I had a long line out the door for kids to come get their MEDS! All these children were medicated. Many because their parents wanted them to be treated with special care. Well, some kids are noisy, some are fidgety, some are imaginative- they are just kids. School is where most kids learn to sit down and shut up and it takes years to learn that. We are NOT all the same. But it doesn't mean you medicate until you have the results you demand.
I am not a person who believes that poor people can be saved from themselves. There is reason why people are poor, but generations of poverty can cripple the ambitions of children. But America's history has proven that families don't have to stay poor. Many poor families have seen a child go on to great success. Of course, I don't believe in allowing people to starve, but we've gotten to a place where a family of 4 with an income of over $40K a year can get social welfare services. No wonder states are broke. Poverty is a complex problem but until you can make everyone the same IQ and talent, there will be poor.
I could go on, but that's enough for now! I am a Republican, a libertarian and I vote my beliefs.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The Root of the Protestor
So, I was in high school and college during the Viet Nam war. And somehow, having been a slight bit of a war protestor (I was in a COLLEGE that I was paying for- working 2 jobs in the summers- and I wasn't going to throw that away, so I went to class), I look at the demonstrators today and wonder what they think they are doing. But then I remember, though demonstrations have occured throughout recorded history, what these kids are doing are a direct result of what they know: that protest can work.
I have strong feelings about Viet Nam.
I have a friend who just asked what it was all for. So I replied to her-
The main reason to be there was to stop the Chinese and communist sympathizers from spreading communism throughout southeast Asia. The Viet Nam war did sort of accomplish that but even further and more importantly, the war kept RUSSIA and CHINA very busy- it kept their resources pouring into southeast Asia. It kept them busy during the cold war, and it weakened them, especially Russia, tremendously. The fall of the USSR, while linked to the failure of communism in general, is also due to the Viet Nam war. We really no longer fear what was a real and present danger in our day to day lives- that of Russian aggression and war mongering. In a very direct way, the Viet Nam war gave the German’s a reunited Germany.
Was it worth it? Well, who knows what would have happened if Russia and China had kept spreading tentacles and growing in military and nuclear strength?
I don’t know if this was the plan initially, but it certainly was the result.
The most unfortunate legacy of the war is the result it had on our generation. We (the generic “we”) became afraid to defend ourselves, afraid to save other nations and willing to watch dictators murder their own people. The liberals who pretend to be so kind hearted actually don’t give a crap about the hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqi’s, or the mutilated women, or the child pornography- they just don’t want a “war”. Of course, no one wants war. But the kids of the 60s and 70s, the kids who were the first real generation to have a “childhood”, never grew up. Many of them are still toddlers in their minds wanting things only their way. And of course, the drugs. We passed that legacy down to our kids and grandkids. What a shame- but all in the name of “counterculture” and “anti-war”.
But yet, the protests then were close to home- our fathers, our brothers, our classmates- they were drafted and many didn't come home. 58,000 didn't come home.
So, young people demonstrating- it's nothing new. But the question is, do they even GET what the previous protests were for? They scream about corporations, but then hold a moment of silence for Steve Jobs and wave their iphones around in a moment of solidarity to Jobs. Really? It just doesn't compare. Protest is fine- it's actually patriotic. Somehow, these protestors seem foolish, ill informed and insincere. But because nothing says "party" these days like a little protest with some violence thrown in, they will run their course. It's pretty pathetic.
I’m not saying we should have killed all those young men- of course not. But the war did have intended and unintended reaches into the future.
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Upcoming Uprising
Unless people feel they have no self determination, there will obviously be a huge turnout at the polls (or mailboxes) this November. This is what happens when the public elects someone who is nothing more than a campaign promise. Who is Barack Obama? Lots of people would define him by race. Some define him by a birth certificate. But no one seems to know exactly what this man is. He has the famous "look over there" defense constantly. He is a blame shifter. How can we know the character of a man until they can take blame for the things they have done? Anyone who has raised a child knows that blaming others is the job of the sneaky kid. The honest child might fib for a second, but then they will admit what they have done. Obama has no experience that counts. So he has hired some very nasty people from a very ugly political machine to be his cohorts and advisors. I believe that if I got Obama alone and looked him in the eye, I believe he would really be able to convince me of some decency. If he could just be honest for once. No one can think he is stupid. He got through law school though it is hard to tell whether he could have, as a white guy, been admitted on his merit. All things considered, he hasn't done anything brilliant or inventive or even common sensical. Which is a shame- it's probably in him somewhere. He has done a very poor job of being president. He seems arrogant, and well, he seems to be a liar. It is one thing to have bad intelligence and make a bad decision. But Obama seems to not be able to even make a decision- thus leaving such idiots as Pelosi to force bad decisions through Congress. Obama doesn't stand a chance. Not because the Republicans won't give him one- but because he has been a bully and no one likes a bully. He has insisted it be HIS way or the highway. Even if he is wrong. He has been covert rather than open. Cspan? hahahahaha- a lie. End the war in Iraq- hahahahaa- liar, rookie. He is following Bush's withdrawal strategy to the letter. Fix the economy- no, overkill it and use the funds to underwrite the bankrupt states. Rob taxpayers. Obama has no American identity- he says he is a citizen of the world as he apologizes for our nation. Those of us who have generation upon generation of family who have served and protected our nation are not into that sort of behavior. I am sure the people who really, truly did hope that this would be a man who could be a leader (even if we did not vote for him) are as disappointed as I am. I have all ready voted in my state'e primaries. And I hope my candidate wins. This is what happens when Congress is unbalanaced. It's time to bring it back into equilibrium.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The Politics of Desperation
The Poker Girl has an announcement to make. She has officially become somewhat of a libertarian. Observing Democrats, Liberals, Republicans, Conservatives, etc has caused me to reach the conclusion that they have one main thing in common- they are desperate. And what has caused their desperation? The answer is simple. They have all participated in bastardizing the Constitution of the United States. Instead of being a union of states, we are now in debt to the federal government. We have, with the help of Congress and the President, over many decades, become a nation of whiners, complainers and dependents as well as a nation of taxation. The participants in the federal government have urged us to become whiners, complainers and dependants. We have been in collusion with them- electing them, booing them, supporting them and hating them. But regardless of what side you, your parents or your great grandparents took, make no mistake- we allowed them to continue to use taxpayer money. We allowed them to continue to bloat budgets and pay for programs that benefitted the few but cost the many. We allowed them to even begin an income tax to begin with. And what have they done? They diverted our attention. Partisan bickering, name calling while pleading to the average American to continue to open their wallet for the poor and disadvantaged. And we, as a caring nation, have ignored the brutal reality that eventually the piper must be paid. And to furthur the ruse, the money is taken right out of our paychecks- so that we wouldn't notice the money was gone. Paid out of our futures, our children's futures, and paid out of our very deaths. We have lost control of ourselves. And now, the federal government faces the hand in the cookie jar moment. The money is gone. Used as "federal funds" as if the government did not take money from us but rather magically willed it to appear. Taxation is now done to appease the voracious monster that is the federal government, and it is about to punish the best and the brightest- the risk takers who run businesses-and it will, sooner rather than later, destroy the most magnificent experiment in the history of the world- the USA.
Poor people are no better off now than before politicians decided to use them as a smoke screen to grab your money. All the medicaid and free clinics has made them no richer and no healthier. There are legitimate arguments to be made that poverty will always exist and that welfare has created generations of dependency. So we are asked to provide more money. The expansion of these programs, despite any proof that they are of benefit or that they provide more than volunteer groups could do, has finally reached the wall. Rather than a nation of strong states that have balanced budgets and govern their own citizenry, we are a nation of weak states at the mercy of federal regulations and actions. The craftier congressmen and women have used "federal" money to pay for their own state deficits and projects. The states with stupider representatives never see their money back. They rob Washington to pay for California. Federal spending has always been a dead end road. But no one seemed to care that the end could happen. But it has. If our federal government had not become so comfortable with robbing its citizens, we would not be in this predicament. At all.
Poor people are no better off now than before politicians decided to use them as a smoke screen to grab your money. All the medicaid and free clinics has made them no richer and no healthier. There are legitimate arguments to be made that poverty will always exist and that welfare has created generations of dependency. So we are asked to provide more money. The expansion of these programs, despite any proof that they are of benefit or that they provide more than volunteer groups could do, has finally reached the wall. Rather than a nation of strong states that have balanced budgets and govern their own citizenry, we are a nation of weak states at the mercy of federal regulations and actions. The craftier congressmen and women have used "federal" money to pay for their own state deficits and projects. The states with stupider representatives never see their money back. They rob Washington to pay for California. Federal spending has always been a dead end road. But no one seemed to care that the end could happen. But it has. If our federal government had not become so comfortable with robbing its citizens, we would not be in this predicament. At all.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Obamacare ? Obama No Care.
When someone asks you what is wrong with Obama’s plan- point out to them that IF the inept government provides “cheap” (except to the taxpayer) health insurance, no employers in their right MINDS would offer a private insurance option. That means that PRIVATE insurers would go out of business then ALL of us are stuck on the government plan. Yesterday, I saw a radiation oncologist (the guy who does the radiation for cancer)who said that in those 1000 pages of health care “reform” is a provision to stop services like his in cases where the cancer has a poor prognosis. That means, no radiation therapy or chemo will be paid for if the cancer will be terminal anyway. Right now, chemo and radiation do provide pain management and shrinking of tumors giving people a longer life- most with more quality of life. Medicine has worked for decades to try to cure cancer. Part of CURING it is extending the lives of patients who have incurable cancer so that they can take new medications and be part of new protocols. Many patients volunteer for this, knowing it might save their children’s lives one day. It is my opinion that the Obama health care option, by denying terminal care, will essentially STOP the cures for many terminal diseases from being developed. And if that is not reason enough, then you need to think of the quality of mercy. Until you face the last year of your life, it is easy to say that a terminal diagnosis should be simply accepted without a fight. Most people choose the fight.
Find me one person who has read all 1000 pages of this bill. That should be the first question you should ask an Obamacare supporter- have they READ what this is? But I do know that the radiation oncologist HAD read the entire bill. And he thought it was frightening for patient choice and physician choice.
Then the commentator asked the best question- is medicine a BUSINESS or a SOCIAL PROGRAM? Last time I looked, there was no government sponsored coverage for legal service, technical services, repair services, etc., and I have to pay everyone who does anything for me. If the government (i.e. the taxpayer) wishes to reimburse hospitals and doctors for the amount of cash the insurance companies make them eat right now, then the citizens of the US cannot trust their congress people to do it for them. It needs to be on the 2010 ballot. Then go ask your doctor what would be best for YOU and your family.
This issue is too huge to push through in a couple of months. It is being forced on the taxpayers by their "representatives". Don't stop the fight. Until your "representative" can explain it all to you and make it easily available to you, don't let them make you a worse victim of an all ready bad, but NOT broken, system.
Find me one person who has read all 1000 pages of this bill. That should be the first question you should ask an Obamacare supporter- have they READ what this is? But I do know that the radiation oncologist HAD read the entire bill. And he thought it was frightening for patient choice and physician choice.
Then the commentator asked the best question- is medicine a BUSINESS or a SOCIAL PROGRAM? Last time I looked, there was no government sponsored coverage for legal service, technical services, repair services, etc., and I have to pay everyone who does anything for me. If the government (i.e. the taxpayer) wishes to reimburse hospitals and doctors for the amount of cash the insurance companies make them eat right now, then the citizens of the US cannot trust their congress people to do it for them. It needs to be on the 2010 ballot. Then go ask your doctor what would be best for YOU and your family.
This issue is too huge to push through in a couple of months. It is being forced on the taxpayers by their "representatives". Don't stop the fight. Until your "representative" can explain it all to you and make it easily available to you, don't let them make you a worse victim of an all ready bad, but NOT broken, system.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
On The Economic Enslavement of the Working Rich
The pokergirl loves to send letters to editors on the internet. It's every citizen's job to have input and interest in what is happening to their country- not only how it affects the individual personally, but also how it affects the fellow citizen. I sent a brief posting out using the phrase "enslavement of the working rich". Now, of course, I have to explain myself!
Nothing in this world is easier than annointing oneself as a humanitarian- particularly if it doesn't cost one any personal time or money. Nothing is easier than demanding that SOMEONE do SOMETHING. And in the United States, it has been decreed that those people be the working rich. Not the trust fund babies who are protected from the great tax grab by the thoughtful and expensive planning of their progenitors. But the WORKING rich. Those people who will also lose their homes and cars and jobs and money if they don't GET UP and go to work every day. The work they do is usually highly skilled in terms of requiring a specific set of abilities- either organizational or intellectual or both- and usually involves a high degree of interaction with others involving a sphere of influence and responsibility unknown to the working poor or middle class. There is a REASON why some workers become rich. And with very little thought, anyone can figure that one out. Resentment of the most successful starts very early in life. People who are not and will never be capable of great financial success learn that resentment is an easier way to deal with it than the self-realization that they simply aren't as good at it. It is easy to pick on the "rich". But rich is, and always has been, relative. If I have 500K a year (don't worry, I don't), and your house payment and maintenance expenses and personal expenses are 450K a year- you aren't rich, you just LIVE rich. There is nothing wrong with that- because in our nation, we are rapidly losing the concept that it is OUR money. We have become victims of the rapidly evolving policy of economic enslavement of the working rich. And the working not so rich. Obama, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck, as well as Biden, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck or worried about his employees, now, with a liberal and punitive Congress, feel they have a right to play Robin Hood. To rob the working wealthy. In their insulated world, they have become God-like in their omnipotence. They choose to steal what is not theirs for a form of political humanitarianism that is purely self promotional. They have taken a problem created by Congress (lack of credit regulation and promotion of bad mortgage policies through freddie and fannie) and turned it into a golden opportunity to produce a constituency of sycophants who will continue to vote for policies that keep them as the benficiaries. This is not only devastating to the core of American capitalism, but will eventually demoralize any one with intelligence and ambition. Ironically, a secular government is now placing itself in the world of "tending to the poor" that should be the primary role of organized religion. Evidently "we" are not the richest country in the world- "we" are determined to become reliant on the richest PEOPLE in the country. And there is a difference. What is happening under the incompetent and bizarre watch of Pelosi and Frank is no more than a political grab to keep the poor under the burden of government subsidy that will suck initiative out of them for generations. Don't believe it? Take a LONG, hard look at the culture of government dependency that has crippled the African American population in such cities as New Orleans. It is a city of 4 generations of welfare, and to be better or work harder is not a concept that is even taught. It is a welfare program that so crippled its recipients that when they were told to evacuate, they didn't even bring their babies formula or diapers with them, let alone a canteen of water. Why? Well, that was the government's job.
Be very careful, America, how you punish the people whose initiative has not only made them peronally successful but also has made the economy successful. It is unfortunate that some of the complainers are people of great intelligence and education who have chosen the easy way out. They employ no one, work in areas that they feel are "critical" to society but that produce no employment and little income and could easily be done by others. Those people have chosen NOT to put themselves into the grinding world of producing jobs and managing people. They simply don't count. They are the excuse makers. And for them to complain about the rich simply reminds us that there is no cure for self-indulgence.
We are always only a step away from an economy that creates dependency of 50% of the citizenry while punishing the most successful. That will FAIL, and it will take us with it. Use your common sense. If you want humanitarianism, get off your rear and go work at a shelter or in an ESL class or through your church. That WORKS. There is another irony in all of this- we have a true African president. He can really say he is African American. He is not a slave descendent. But he now proposes to enslave the working rich to his government- to use them and steal from them and punish them for simply being better. How weird is that?
Nothing in this world is easier than annointing oneself as a humanitarian- particularly if it doesn't cost one any personal time or money. Nothing is easier than demanding that SOMEONE do SOMETHING. And in the United States, it has been decreed that those people be the working rich. Not the trust fund babies who are protected from the great tax grab by the thoughtful and expensive planning of their progenitors. But the WORKING rich. Those people who will also lose their homes and cars and jobs and money if they don't GET UP and go to work every day. The work they do is usually highly skilled in terms of requiring a specific set of abilities- either organizational or intellectual or both- and usually involves a high degree of interaction with others involving a sphere of influence and responsibility unknown to the working poor or middle class. There is a REASON why some workers become rich. And with very little thought, anyone can figure that one out. Resentment of the most successful starts very early in life. People who are not and will never be capable of great financial success learn that resentment is an easier way to deal with it than the self-realization that they simply aren't as good at it. It is easy to pick on the "rich". But rich is, and always has been, relative. If I have 500K a year (don't worry, I don't), and your house payment and maintenance expenses and personal expenses are 450K a year- you aren't rich, you just LIVE rich. There is nothing wrong with that- because in our nation, we are rapidly losing the concept that it is OUR money. We have become victims of the rapidly evolving policy of economic enslavement of the working rich. And the working not so rich. Obama, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck, as well as Biden, who has never run a business or issued a paycheck or worried about his employees, now, with a liberal and punitive Congress, feel they have a right to play Robin Hood. To rob the working wealthy. In their insulated world, they have become God-like in their omnipotence. They choose to steal what is not theirs for a form of political humanitarianism that is purely self promotional. They have taken a problem created by Congress (lack of credit regulation and promotion of bad mortgage policies through freddie and fannie) and turned it into a golden opportunity to produce a constituency of sycophants who will continue to vote for policies that keep them as the benficiaries. This is not only devastating to the core of American capitalism, but will eventually demoralize any one with intelligence and ambition. Ironically, a secular government is now placing itself in the world of "tending to the poor" that should be the primary role of organized religion. Evidently "we" are not the richest country in the world- "we" are determined to become reliant on the richest PEOPLE in the country. And there is a difference. What is happening under the incompetent and bizarre watch of Pelosi and Frank is no more than a political grab to keep the poor under the burden of government subsidy that will suck initiative out of them for generations. Don't believe it? Take a LONG, hard look at the culture of government dependency that has crippled the African American population in such cities as New Orleans. It is a city of 4 generations of welfare, and to be better or work harder is not a concept that is even taught. It is a welfare program that so crippled its recipients that when they were told to evacuate, they didn't even bring their babies formula or diapers with them, let alone a canteen of water. Why? Well, that was the government's job.
Be very careful, America, how you punish the people whose initiative has not only made them peronally successful but also has made the economy successful. It is unfortunate that some of the complainers are people of great intelligence and education who have chosen the easy way out. They employ no one, work in areas that they feel are "critical" to society but that produce no employment and little income and could easily be done by others. Those people have chosen NOT to put themselves into the grinding world of producing jobs and managing people. They simply don't count. They are the excuse makers. And for them to complain about the rich simply reminds us that there is no cure for self-indulgence.
We are always only a step away from an economy that creates dependency of 50% of the citizenry while punishing the most successful. That will FAIL, and it will take us with it. Use your common sense. If you want humanitarianism, get off your rear and go work at a shelter or in an ESL class or through your church. That WORKS. There is another irony in all of this- we have a true African president. He can really say he is African American. He is not a slave descendent. But he now proposes to enslave the working rich to his government- to use them and steal from them and punish them for simply being better. How weird is that?
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