alright so the health bill passed.... what does this mean to me, and what does this mean to you? I've been hearin a lot of rhetoric lately about the character of right and wrong... about whether or not the side i choose is the right side... I'm getting really angry over the hypocrisy, over the concerns and fears of this new and "terrible America." proponents of the bill have stated that it will insure over 30 million people currently not covered, let me write that again, 30,000,000... that's almost the entire population of California, 6 million of which are children, totalling about the entire population of Tennessee, the seventeenth most populated state... we have a whole state's worth of children uninsured!!!!!!!! i understand the fears of people who don't want to have their "Cadillac plans" taken away, but at what cost are we willing to hold on? is your 5 dollar copay worth more than your morals? and this talk about, "who's gonna pay for this? the taxpayers that's who, i tell ya!" I'm gonna come back to that cause it makes me soooo livid... but this baloney about "well were gonna give the govt. control of the entire health care industry and they cant do anything right, they re gonna ruin it!" let me remind you for 49 cents, about the amount of pennies i can find in the crack of my car seat, i can send a letter from new jersey to Alaska...3,500 miles away! man uncle Sam's really robbing pockets on that one, what else does the govt. run... oh yeah the most technically advanced and mightiest military known to mankind... really, really....
now I'm not on a soapbox and I'm certainly not judging anyone here , but this notion that we don't want to forgo our tax dollars to pay for the uninsured, it bothers me, i a bad way, i don't care if the argument is that they don't deserve it because they don't work hard enough... they are lazy, they're freeloaders.... regardless, it is still a bad argument. I am not a Christian, at least not at the moment, but i believe so strongly in the christian ideals, the morality, and i believe that to do right is to do right, there is nothing that surpasses this, i will always help those who are helpless, regardless if they deserve it or not, would Jesus have passed a man dying of thirst?, regardless of they're problems, no, and I'm not expecting people to live up to Jesus standards of morality, but i say, you know what is right, DO NOT IGNORE IT! 76% of the population of America belong to the christian faith, a faith that is built on the love your fellow man and guess what, you don't get to pick and choose. now don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect in any scope of the word, and i have my share of problems and wrong doings but i still want to do the right thing and, i would gladly give 50 dollars out of every paycheck to a person in need, they spend it on booze, i offer the other cheek... besides, i would probably spend it on booze or tacos anyway, and money is not important compared to the problems of those who suffer, i mean are we so greedy as to let 6,000,000 children go on uninsured to avoid a 3% tax hike, if that is what it means to be American then we have fallen too far from the ideals regardless of how "angry" the tea party is...
I think it boils down to fear... fear of the unknown, fear that he's gonna get it before me, fear of change... let me be the first to say, Everything will be alright, something I've learned over sometime lately, is that change is a constant, and while it is scary, it is OK, it can be a very good thing, as long as we use it productively and with an open heart and mind... easier said than done, trust me i know, but still necessary, nothing good can come without change
so i ask that we please surrender some greed, some fear, ans some ego and give an ear to the voice of morality and reason and don't worry, we can always change this again, we have that power, and we don't need to pretend that its being taken from us every time our political agenda is threatened... elections are regular in this country, remember....
sorry about that rant...
also how about that picture of orca, he's a damn cool cat, and he was born in a guitar amp hahahahaha
c.b.
