Moronic Musings From Massachusetts

Obama and Pelosi, Are you kidding me?

Nearly 50 million Americans don't have health insurance, roughly 13% of this country.  That is a disgusting statistic and an affront to what this nation should stand for.  There is no question that we, like most other civilized countries in the First World, need National Health care and need it now.

We need a government plan that is direct competition to the Health Insurance companies.  One that will drive prices down.  One that will give the uninsured a chance for coverage and give everyone a viable option other than the over-priced, heartless, fat-cat programs we get to pick from now.  Wouldn't that be great?!  Isn't that what we expected when we elected the Big "O"?!

But look at what we're getting.  The final plan hasn't been inked yet but in all the preliminary versions a few things are apparent:  They are all poorly thought out, will further crush our economy, will hurt 10's of millions more than they help.  In a nutshell, they suck.

The new plans will force all companies with payroll over $500,000 a year to offer their employees health insurance and pay at least 60%.  This is going to drive many small and medium size businesses - out of business.  Those of us that have health insurance will probably have to start paying taxes on the "benefit".  This will cost most people hundreds of dollars a MONTH.  And the best part of this, conceived while in a drunken stupor, plan is the "but I can't afford insurance and still eat" penalty.  If for some reason, like being poor, a person can't afford health insurance, the government will steal 2.5% of their salary as a penalty.  They are out of their fucking minds.  This isn't a beneficial public plan, it's legalized government robbery.  As bad as all that is, perhaps, the worst part of all this is the fact that it will not be competition for the insurance companies.  In fact it will just give them 50,000,000 more victims.

Obama, stop now or lose my financial support today and my vote in 2012.  I have a motto, it's a simple one.  Don't re-elect anyone that wants to bankrupt you and hurt your country.  Smarten up or starting in Jan. 2013 you can go back to community organizing.

Republicans! Heavily Armed and Completely Uninformed.

There was a time in my life when I was a registered Republican, now I'm afraid of them.

Once upon a time the Republican party stood for small government, personal responsibility, lower taxes and a strong military.  I never voted straight Republican but more often than not they received my vote.  I was considered a moderate in those days - socially progressive but fiscally conservative.  Today the world and Republican party have changed to such a degree - I'm considered a liberal.  It ain't me, babe, it ain't me.

Everyday I grow more and more certain that the Republican party is becoming a bizarre cult. You watch the crazed rants of an entertainer like Glenn Beck and you laugh, believing that it has to be a satiric spoof of the stereotypical neo-conservative.  An exaggeration of the far right that couldn't possibly exist.  However, the joke is on you.  While Glenn Beck is almost certainly playing a part, a man making a career out of post 9-11 paranoia, his followers believe every word he says.  They have no understanding of how they're being played, even as they dole out their love and devotion for this caricature of the uber conservative.  And there are so many more just like him, although their performances aren't nearly so over-the-top, their objective remains the same - milk the extreme right wing for all it's worth.

Now while the extreme right coughs up their nachos and beer money to buy Ann Coulter's latest bound hate fest or fore goes that extra box of rifle shells to see Rush Limbaugh spew toxic vitriol in person, it's the rest of us that truly pays. 

America was once the most progressive nation in the world. We had the culture other nations clamored to keep pace with. Our scientists were world revered and foreign citizens from nations across the globe came to the U.S. to acquire a superior education. Today, we're teetering on the edge of becoming a non-secular, third world nation, with religion outweighing science in relevance and influence.

We are the only civilized nation on the planet without a national health care system. We are the only civilized nation on the planet still disputing the mountains of evidence that global climate changes exist. And with the exception of Italy, we are the only non-Muslim country where the religious right has so much influence in politics.

In retrospect, Glenn Beck isn't really that funny after all.