Mr. Obama...The mosquitoes this year are awful. Swarms. In the woods with my 1 year old, a cloud of them circled his head like bi-planes around King Kong on the Empire State Building.
Thank goodness for insect repellent.
Though the occasional mosquito breaks through and lands no matter what.
Fresh blood. The reward is just too great. Mosquitoes get their blood. Hackers weave computer viruses around blockades. Lawyers find loopholes. Spammers evade filters. Pirates thwart efforts to block intellectual property theft. Criminals and investment bankers take reckless risks for even the hint of vast gain. Viruses mutate past vaccinations.
And health insurance companies will find legal technicalities to boost profit at the expense of our health No Matter What.
The reward, money for our lives, is too great.
The "trigger" is stupid.
At best it's just putting off the solution for another seven years while huge portions of America fall to their knees, jobs vanish, and would-be entrepreneurs and desperate, despondent people turn to alcoholism, drugs, suicide from a bullet in the head.
At worst, our president and Democratic representatives are kicking the can down the road. Another time bomb on America set to go off at the END of Obama's administration.
Seven year trigger my ass.
My ass.
Insurance companies have failed. They don't get another chance.
Look.
I don't want to seem ungrateful. The world I seem to have inherited is better in some ways than the one my parents inherited. And at least I have knowledge of how screwed up things are environmentally, economically, globally. The worst minds given the right information can out-perform the best minds given the wrong information. And now it seems we have the right information, thanks to those in the past who fought hard and tirelessly to deliver it through throngs of the painfully ignorant. Thank you. From the deepest parts of my heart and sincerity. Thank you.
And now it seems the work of acting on that information is falling on my generation to face up to the piles and piles of shit that have been kicked down the road by people in power and in greed and in ignorance.
And you know what? I'm fine with that.
Bring it on.
Tear down the factories. Lay off millions. Bring on the era of peak oil, the polluted collapsing eco-systems, the AIDS pandemic, global warming, global food shortages, a nation tarnished in the eyes of the world from torture, murder, overbearing arrogance, and its direct hand in a global economic meltdown. Bring on wars and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Tell me more about responsibility, Mr. Obama. Tell me a little more about sacrifice. Tell me more about how the End Of the American Dream has fallen in our laps and we need to rise to the occasion.
How very inspirational.
And then tell me and my children right now how we're supposed to suck it up and take personal responsibility while insurance companies get a seven year "Trigger" to play nice after sucking at our blood for decades.
Please, tell me more what I can do for my country by fearing for my families health so that insurance companies can get one more shot at not screwing up America's health and health care system?
Seven YEARS.
I don't have seven years. The millions of unemployed don't have seven years. The tens of millions of uninsured and the hundreds of millions of underinsured don't have seven years. My kids and their health don't have seven years. My father, in the hospital RIGHT NOW doesn't have seven years.
No. My plate is full. I have shit to do. The world is crumbling around me and I have a family to raise and a world to try to make better.
I need this one thing, this ONE THING, a public health care system RIGHT NOW.
Screw the seven year trigger. The trigger has been pulled. It's done. There will be no stopping these companies from sucking our blood, and for you, Mr. Obama, to consider kicking this can down the road toward the end of what may be your second term is a vile thing to even consider while the rest of us are asked to "sacrifice."