I was listening to the speeches of last week from the dem's convention, and I kept hearing about health care and education, and education always came after H.C., and was always in the form of teachers wages and the cost of tuition. I am 29 years old, a veteran of Iraq, and I am in my first year of college.
I struggle to pay the base amount of tuition, even though i am in a community colleg. I have a morgtage, a wife, and a couple of pets, no kids, and have fallen into a crappy job. My truck is about to be reposesed, and my sattilite tv has been turned off.
We need to put education first, and damn health care.
One of my favorite classes, in any sense, is history. I love learning the course our world and us as Americans have taken to arrive at this point, were we are so angry and dissatisfied with our goverment, and I thank god I don't live in another time. We have a democracy, not something too common in the world's history. We live in a time of scientific marvel, most gained over the last 100-200 years. And we have health care, the blessing of a longer life. Or is it?
I look at the past and marvel at the the smart guys discovery's, using almost nothing but ingenuity and ditermanation. They didn't have health care, well, a lot of them didn't. Newton, Archimedes, Aristotle, the works. They lived in times were they had only their eyes and not much else, but there discoverys advanced our world more than most people know, in times were health care was not widly avaliable. These world changers lived without health care, and did wondrous things just with their minds.
Can you better mankind from without healthcare, using just you mind? Yes. Can you make scientific advancements without healthcare? Yes. Can you live a complete life without healthcare? Well, on that one, it depends on your own definition of full life, be it meaningfull or just long.
To address the arguments that are coming, yes, some of these men might of died before they had a chance to contribute to the world had it not been to healthcare extending their lifes. Yes, a lot of the men I had mentioned were into medical areas of science. no, I am not a closet nazi.
What I am learning is that health care is second to education. Education and knowledge lead to good healthcare, not the other way around. I have blogged about the benifits of free education up to college level, and it sounded like a gop pep rally, things like hightaxes and paying for someone elses edu. not being fair, some people saying stuff like some people are not cut out for college. I call bullsh*%! Those same people could say that alot of people are not cut out for highschool if we had to pay for it, but in our world you can't even get a job without a HS diploma.
My stand is this. Through out history it is the people with the best and most current knowledge who have come to rule, to lead, to build empire's. We have people who have lived into the century mark, yet they are mostly unknown, while people who only live into thier 40's shape the world. They did it with a thirst of knowledge, and not a thirst of a comfortable life. What would happen if we made education the most important thing, made that the one thing everyone get's, and put healthcare on the back bunner? We would solve our healthcare issues plus global warming, plus the food crises, plus the water crises, plus the population crises, plus the energy crises, plus everthing else, in givin time.
In life, they say, the two permanents are death and taxes. You can avoid taxes, but you will always die. My grandmother kept my grandfather alive for 5 weeks in a coma, and spent the next 5 years penniless because of it. She died broke, which was a shame, as it was ineviteble to what would happen.
I just think if we put the importance on education as we do healthcare, we would solve all these problems in the right, long term way, not the wrong, short term way. Thank you.
Have fun,Learn facts, Yours truly, The Drunken Democrat