Some Random thoughts and questions…
This is going to be something of a unfocused political rant. Just decided to get some things out there for people (mainly me) to think about:
- What makes Congress think that delaying the coverage of pre-existing conditions for 4 years and requiring people who can’t afford insurance to buy it or be punished with fines is a good idea? Here’s the scenario — I’ve got medical problems but no insurance and I have to pay out of pocket for everything. Now the government forces me to spend my money to pay for medical insurance, thus using up what little money I had to cover office visits and RXs and the insurance doesn’t pay for anything because all the medical problems are pre-existing. Wow, that’s really helpful because what money I did have is now gone. The insurance won’t cover the medical problems and now I have no money to pay out of pocket. Thank you Congress?
- Do the members of the Supreme Court know that they are there to defend and support the Constitution? Have they even read it? Do they know the term “precedent”? Because they just threw out years of precedence and will now allow big business to pour money into Congressional campaign coffers — and some how that supposed to help the “little guys” support their candidate? In what universe does that happen? In this one, big business gives big money and expects big favors or you don’t get money the next time you run for office.
- Avatar is a movie. People smoke now knowing that it’s bad for them. They’ll probably smoke in the future too (have you seen those non-cigarette cigarettes — yuck). The Nav’i live in harmony with their planet and that’s not a bad thing — we should be as concerned for Earth. Oh, and the complaint that corporations would never use force on the native population to better their bottom line. Well, guess some people haven’t been paying attention to what goes on now-a-days in our “real” world.
- Why don’t the Democrats stand up and tell the Republican’s to stuff their lies and innuendos? For years, the Democrats have been allowing the Republicans to define them. There is NOTHING wrong with being Liberal — in fact, if you look up the definition of a Liberal it is something that we should all strive for.
favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.Grow a spine would you. You wonder why you’re losing the people because you haven’t the fortitude to stand up for your own beliefs. Democrats have been kowtowing to the Republicans and afraid to set the record straight — as loudly, as repetitively, and as firmly as the Republican spread their own wacky version of the truth. It’s hard to have people know what’s going on when only the other side is doing the talking — telling the same untruths over and over and over.
- Is the attention span of the average American really that short? Don’t they remember that what the Republicans say about being all for keeping government out of the lives of the people really means do exactly what we say and everything will be fine. It hasn’t been in the past and I doubt very much it will be in the future?
- I find it difficult to believe that the people who lost their own Congressional bank because they didn’t remember to keep their own finances balanced are the same people who are in charge of the country’s finances. I’m surprised with the rules they’ve been making that the banking crisis isn’t worse than it was. I still don’t see any understanding that loosening the rules on banks was not a good thing and that the laws that were in place to protect us from this type of crisis should be re instituted.
While I’m ranting. I want my country back. I want the America I grew up in. The one were people had individual freedoms and protections guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The one where people were not disappeared off the streets and thrown into prison and tortured for unspecified crimes without trial or due process. I read the paper now and remember back during the cold war when Americans were so proud of their freedoms — now we live in a country very similar to the old Soviet Union — where people have to show papers (coming with the “Real ID Act” ), where people disappeared just as we’re now doing to anyone who is even hinted at being a terrorist. In the America I grew up in people would be horrified to find out that our government was torturing people. (Make no mistake. Calling it enhanced interrogation is just a way to weasel out of calling it what it is — torture.
I want my country back. I want to be proud of being an American again but all I see is Congress slowly bit by bit turning this country into a police state where everyone is afraid all the time.
There, that’s out of my system for a while. Maybe I should just give up reading the news — it’s so depressing to see what’s happened to our values and belief in fair play.