03/19/2010
DESTROYING DEMOCRACY part one,
No foreign country could have brought us to this, no external power would have even dared. Today America is confused, lost and divided unsure of it's own future. Thirty seven years ago, America was a democracy, a beacon of freedom, where the negro could rise up and with the help of the whites win civil rights and equality, a factory worker could depend on a lifetime of well paid employment and health care and a retirement, could buy his own home, own a car and and raise a family. Heck even workers at Sears and J.C. Penny had life time jobs with benefits. Millionaires were few and far between and fat chance you were going to meet one, that is unless you were a cab driver, like me, in West Palm Beach, I was going to be an American.
Government was still responsible to the people, there was getting out of Vietnam, the Water Gate, and the Nixon impeachment, even after the Ohio University the government had relented. It is in this country that in 2003 I wrote, "whether you follow the Democratic policies or the Republican policies you always end up with the same results, destructive to the country and the society".
For those who are awake and are pondering the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday, relax, the sun will still come out on the Monday morning and no, no one will be there at your door to give you a mortal injection, no death panel will be assembled, yet. Most Americans had not even thought of the health care mess till about six months ago or so when the Republicans decided to defeat Obama, the uppity negro president. Yeah that's right.
Obama and the Democrats are hell bent on passing a health care bill, no matter how asinine, just to prove a point, and a great point it is too, for democracy, if Obama fails in passing this bill then the United States will not have a functioning presidency for the next two and half years, and that is just for starters.
I have been writing about health care since before Obama became the pres, and yes since this debate started
and since ,
the view being that the health care mess in too expensive and to unwieldy to be solved easily or simply, but a 2500 page plan it self is too big to simplify anything.
But here is another problem, in a discussion among equals, no matter how far apart has to be logical, when you come to the table for a discussion and punch holes in the other party's plan then you better have an equal and just as comprehensive a plan to offer as the alternative, so far what I have heard from the Republican side is that they want to stop Obama and then start over, where have these brilliant minds (read nags) been.
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE
DESTROYING DEMOCRACY part one,
No foreign country could have brought us to this, no external power would have even dared. Today America is confused, lost and divided unsure of it's own future. Thirty seven years ago, America was a democracy, a beacon of freedom, where the negro could rise up and with the help of the whites win civil rights and equality, a factory worker could depend on a lifetime of well paid employment and health care and a retirement, could buy his own home, own a car and and raise a family. Heck even workers at Sears and J.C. Penny had life time jobs with benefits. Millionaires were few and far between and fat chance you were going to meet one, that is unless you were a cab driver, like me, in West Palm Beach, I was going to be an American.
Government was still responsible to the people, there was getting out of Vietnam, the Water Gate, and the Nixon impeachment, even after the Ohio University the government had relented. It is in this country that in 2003 I wrote, "whether you follow the Democratic policies or the Republican policies you always end up with the same results, destructive to the country and the society".
For those who are awake and are pondering the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday, relax, the sun will still come out on the Monday morning and no, no one will be there at your door to give you a mortal injection, no death panel will be assembled, yet. Most Americans had not even thought of the health care mess till about six months ago or so when the Republicans decided to defeat Obama, the uppity negro president. Yeah that's right.
Obama and the Democrats are hell bent on passing a health care bill, no matter how asinine, just to prove a point, and a great point it is too, for democracy, if Obama fails in passing this bill then the United States will not have a functioning presidency for the next two and half years, and that is just for starters.
I have been writing about health care since before Obama became the pres, and yes since this debate started
and since ,
the view being that the health care mess in too expensive and to unwieldy to be solved easily or simply, but a 2500 page plan it self is too big to simplify anything.
But here is another problem, in a discussion among equals, no matter how far apart has to be logical, when you come to the table for a discussion and punch holes in the other party's plan then you better have an equal and just as comprehensive a plan to offer as the alternative, so far what I have heard from the Republican side is that they want to stop Obama and then start over, where have these brilliant minds (read nags) been.
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE
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