now, tracy, i don't know you, so i won't judge you. on the contrary, i want to help you. you see, we rational's (that's what i am. liberal, yes, but i base my views on rationality, not my political bent) do. we help people trapped in the poltical spectrum ease their minds about things they don't agree with, admittedly to limited success. and exactly what body WOULD you like controlling your freedoms, hmmm? Amana? Blue Cross? Metlife? ya see, or maybe you don't see, this is where this particular argument falls apart. it's the illusion of socialism and communism that has been created by right wing talking heads that has people spooked, not health care reform. it's sad, really, because alot of very intelligent people have been conned into opposing the first initiative since civil rights that will actually improve the quality of life of the american citizen. and that's what it is: a mass con perpetrated by your republican representatives and the conservative media. they conned you all by framing the debate in imaginary fantasy nightmare monsters like death panels, nazis, socialists, and black men with power. they dreamt up scary numbers with suffixes like "trillion" to sway you. they organized and gave themselves edgy names like "tea bagger" and "sarah palin".
i could go into the time not a decade ago when a president and his administration actually DID infringe upon our constitutional freedoms, but let's stick to the subject at hand.
alright, so you're frightened right now. i understand. change is scary, for sure, but so is surgery, and that can save your life. so let's ease your mind right now. this new law is not a socialist plot. there are no death wagons coming for grandma. there aren't any black suits monitoring your doctor visits. there are no government checkpoints that you have to carry papers for. now answer me this: at what point in this bill is a government run health care system proposed? i'll wait... oh, that's right, it isn't proposed in this bill! this is an INSURANCE reform bill, not a "government takeover of the health care system". all it does is tell Amana, and BCBS, and Metlife what they can't do to us, and what they must do for us.
you cannot do things without paying for them. it's funny, and i'm just observing here, how so few people from a certain side of the political spectrum were critical of the reckless way the previous administration spent money. it's even a bit shocking that nobody from a certain side of the political spectrum, and again this is just an observation, seemed to be outraged with the anti-regulatory policies enacted by the previous administration that led to the mess that the current regime had to clean up. you can't blame the current owner for the way the previous owner left the house. had the country not been bleeding money over the past decade due to poor balance of trade's, bubble economics, and a seeming aversion to creating new revenue streams, maybe we wouldn't have felt the need to pass that ghastly bailout. if the past decade hadn't been spent in a collection of wars that proved to be money pit's, not to mention where victory is an improbability, perhaps our deficit wouldn't be in the trillions.
Tracy, my dear, change is scary for all of us. i must admit that even I am not 100% sold on what has passed, but i know one thing for sure: i'd rather have an imperfect reform bill than a for profit health baron deciding my fate. give it time, my dear, give it time.
