I voted for it… I helped campaign for it… i waited for it… and i’m still waiting for it. WTF.
45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance
via 45,000 American deaths associated with lack of insurance – CNN.com.
So I emailed my senator today, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, regarding the gridlock being placed to kill the health care debate. I made the case that a public option has to remain in place and a solid one at that. Imagine the small businesses that could thrive if they were lifted of the health care fees they’re up to there necks in right now. A whole renaissance of business creativity could take root and thrive in America. It really saddens me to think of all the collective dollars laid to waist on death and destruction but given the chance invest collective dollars into healing and helping each other out we just can’t find the courage in our leaders (although apparently a whole lot of Americans across party lines agree some health care out of the taxes we’re already paying would be a pretty neat thing).
So you may be asking will there be a public plan left in place? Of course there’s still going to be a public plan left in place – the one that is afforded by you the tax payer to your courageous elected representatives. So it’s no wonder that they’re out of touch with what working citizens are going through when it comes to keeping themselves and loved ones alive and well. Refer back to the 2008 election where McCain compares his experience with paying for Health Care to being an astronaut flying to the moon. Yes folks…. the madmen are running the show.
Whether patients are dying on emergency waiting room floors, being dumped on skid row still wearing there gowns and hospital wrist bands (even if you’re a paraplegic you’re fair game for equally bad treatment).
The Homeland Security Agency is unconstitutional anyway because it is a merger of civilian law enforcement with the military – which is the formula for a dictatorship! That is something which is never done in a republic!
Apparently these worries of draconian agencies weren’t turned on for the past seven years under the decades royal failure in chief, W. Now it’s ‘gubment gonna getcha you betcha’ pills being passed around without any regard for a civilized society but fear. Suggesting the “bullet box” is one thing and passing out fear for her own popularity and personal gain is quite a few things more. No this wasn’t Sara Palin. This time the award for pure tackiness goes to Catherine Crabill.
“If we create a public option, the public is going to end up paying for it … That’s a cost we can’t take on.”
- Joe Lieberman
Dear Mr. Lieberman, Since the War in Iraq has been a cost and a public non-option in more ways than one, could you please not reference one’s need to go see a doctor as “a cost we can’t take on” but rather reference future unjust wars with a limitless monetary budget to kill and injur as “a cost we can’t take on”?
via TheHill.com – Centrists threaten Obama’s agenda.
I pretty much ignore the Palin circus but seeing as how this is a piece of political news and a governor of a state just resigned, it makes sense to reign in the sunshine. Rumors are abound that she is now about to be federally charged for some shady dealings on the construction of her house just months before she started her race for governor. The resignation letter on her web site is pure gold.
Letterman-Palin fued was fake
Now we know what the “Letterman” incident was about a few weeks back. All I could think was “why now? Why make up this attack on her family that Letterman never did and play it so hard into the media? It was all about playing herself as the victim and continually build the charade that everyone is after the Palin family. We now know it was in anticipation of this resignation over an impending investigation.
Meanwhile in other news: a coup in Honduras, Rush Limbaugh wishes it would happen here, and Iranians are still proving themselves to have bigger balls when it comes to public protest than we currently do.