I don't get it.
I have gone off the deep end again. It's worth it to me because the angst that I am experiencing by shutting my mouth is making me sick and seeking medication to dull my brain.
What is going on here with health care? Do people no longer have a brain or just have nothing to lose anymore? Let me in on the secret. If it makes sense, I'm open for another mind set. I'll try the drug.
Does anyone realize that Medicare is a government run program? That those checks you get that are from the Social Security Administration are sent by the government? I know I haven't had to chase them down for it yet. I am at a loss here. What is the fight about? We are spending too much money to cover everyone? Doesn't anyone realize that if you have no health insurance in this country and go to a hospital emergency room for treatment, that the government in the form of medicaid picks up the tab. And guess what, you are paying for it. And guess who isn't paying for it? Big Health Insurance Companies, whose main objective in the world of finance is to service themselves and their share holders. I ask you, is it any wonder why they don't want change, are willing to cough up millions of dollars to pretend that they're going to change and advertise as such to keep the status quo. That goes for big Pharmaceutical companies as well. Check out the stock market. Every time it looks like no Public Option, stocks rise in that community. Why do you think that is? Great for those who can buy them and make a killing, but for most, investing is a memory of the past.
Why is it so simple to bend the minds of half this country by making the same old promises that are never realized? Didn't we, the majority of Americans vote for change? Will it always be about our elected officials best interests and is Washington so very corrupt that no one is immune to that big money and gifts, lobbyists and the likes of those who despise changing the current corruption in this government.
Democrats see it in the form of a Republican run government. How they took us to war for no reason except to line the pockets of the already rich. A good war helps the economy. We Democrats saw how that worked , but Republicans who are ready to let bygones be bygones and have already forgotten the huge deficit that they elected to pursue, have somehow turned to the President, Chairman Mao, being the reason for our current deficit, spending , and spending on his own special interests to turn America into a socialist country. Doesn't anyone hear anything except the clanging in their own head?
I want somewhere, a tiny piece of common ground. A trace of humanity. A coming together of all Americans without throngs of rabble rousing special interest groups mucking up the conversation and giving us all a chance to express the fears that we have about what the other side wants. Not a bunch of lies about anything that is lie worthy to suppress and confuse people so they become paralyzed or worse violent against fellow Americans. Where is this going when people like Michelle Bachman can stand up and say take an oath, slit your wrists and become blood brothers against the great black socialist terrorist and do not pass this bill.
I live in Florida, Central Florida, the lightening capitol of the USA. A few weeks ago, down the street from my home a great big Bell tolling Church was struck by lightening and burned to the ground. One strike, it was gone. Just a hole in the ground with a fence around it. It wasn't my church, but still, being a basically spiritual person and believer that there is a God that watches, what does anyone think happened here. If another one goes in one of these lightening storms, I am going to seriously consider that someone up above is trying to tell us something and maybe we ought to be listening , at least to each other.