The spokespeople for middle America are a pack of fickle mush-heads. Instead of offering alternatives to the health care bill or saying “Hey, we think adding this or getting rid of that part would be a good idea,” all they can come up with is misinformed, fear based rhetoric. Those protesting the Health Care Reform Bill apparently think there is nothing to fix. If you like your health care, what are you protesting? No one is trying to take anything from you, because all current coverage is protected under the bill.
Those people with signs depicting Obama likened to Hitler have never read the proposed bill. I know this because a mind that could make that connection is clearly illiterate. I have read much of the bill (it's over 1000 pages), and I assure you there are no provisions for “death squads”. What the barely-literate Ms Palin was referring to is offering people the opportunity to speak with a physician or nurse practitioner in order to make informed decisions about long term care. This would include providing information about services and benefits, living wills, hospice, etc. - sounds like the Gestapo, right? My only concern is that the bill does increase the availability of vaccines, so the mind control drugs that our government infuses in flu shots will be more widespread. In truth, it is a very good piece of legislation that protects our rights, and the majority of Americans should be applauding it to drown out the extremists.
Critics of reform are saying, “We already have the best health care in the world.” True, the United States has the best technology and the most skilled surgeons, but that argument is being made by those that can afford it. Now, because Pres Obama wants to offer a little of the best to the poor, he is being called a racist socialist. Excuse me?! Because there are more rich white people than rich minorities and he wants to tax the rich, apparently that makes him racist? His mother is white for hell’s sake. It is not socialism, because no one is talking about leveling the playing field. The wealthy will still be wealthy and in control, but I think it’s great that the IRS is finally cracking down on hiding money in foreign accounts. Don’t get me wrong because I love capitalism, but our Constitution was created to promote fairness in all things (when you include the amendments, of course).
Idiots and lobbyists (is that redundant?) are clamoring so much that the White House is backing down from insisting on a public option. The public option is the only way to give all Americans access to decent health care. Anything less would just be a reshuffling of the current failing system. Just as I feared, it seems we are going to get some watered down reform bill that will be criticized for not doing enough even though it will be the fault of the critics if it doesn’t.
By the way, Limbaugh and Beck…get bent.
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I like the way you think and your line of reasoning.
As a Canadian, who is in no way idealistic about our public system's many flaws and is frustrated by the "American style privatization" in this country, can understand those Americans who have it good being nervous. That nervousness is well founded in the media hype and misinformation around the central issues. The media in both of our countries manipulates public opinion through fear mongering and hyperbole. When you see people making Obama look like Hilter, I shake my head in disgust at the poor taste of it all, and the utterly absurd comparison! The fact that Rush Limbaugh is taken as a serious political pundit is, in itself, absurd.
I guess my question is: where is mainstream America? I have been in your country several times and know that it is full of intelligent people. How is it that all the idiots get the spotlight? Is the corporate control of media really so bad that the rational moderates have been shut out for good?
Anyway, keep up the good fight and best of luck (I'd say "break a leg" in the old theatre tradition, but...)
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