I just saw a video of Barney Frank addressing a "question" asked by someone who is about half-way through her paper cup of Kool-Aid. She holds up a sign depicting our President as a Hitler look-alike and calls health insurance reform a Nazi policy.
Now, I did not vote for Obama. Nonetheless, since Chuck Heston is gone, he is my President. I don't like people, however ignorant they may be, comparing a duly elected President of the United States to a genocidal maniac. I certainly understand Rep. Frank's reluctance to attempt any meaningful discourse with the woman. His comparison to a dining room table is unfair to tasteful, well-made furniture everywhere.
The simple fact is she and many other youngsters like her are enjoying the free ride. They will wait until they are seriously injured or sick to jump on the welfare wagon and soak the rest of us for free medical care. Sure, she squeals. So do all the other piggies at the trough.
So, tune back in to Beck or Rush and finish your Kool-Aid, dear.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Why You Don't Like Me
I got it figured out. I have been less and less palatable to most people over the last twenty years. I used to wonder why. I figured it out. It's consistency.
I am anti-abortion, with the usual caveats. I believe it is wrong to take a life. I am also against capital punishment. I believe it is wrong to take a life. Simple, see? In today's world, the position I hold is weird.
I believe the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that we have the right to bear arms. I also am in favor of Prohibition extended to alcohol, tobacco, and non-pharmaceuticals. Nowhere is tobacco mentioned in the Constitution, nor is alcohol. Simple, see?
As for race relations, since I view the concept of race as a non-entity created by people to cause trouble, the rest is obvious. See my previous posts if you really want to get ticked off.
So liberal folks and conservatives alike don't like to talk to me. My guess is, you'll never read this blog again. Nice not meeting you.
Did I mention I don't like pigeons?
I am anti-abortion, with the usual caveats. I believe it is wrong to take a life. I am also against capital punishment. I believe it is wrong to take a life. Simple, see? In today's world, the position I hold is weird.
I believe the Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that we have the right to bear arms. I also am in favor of Prohibition extended to alcohol, tobacco, and non-pharmaceuticals. Nowhere is tobacco mentioned in the Constitution, nor is alcohol. Simple, see?
As for race relations, since I view the concept of race as a non-entity created by people to cause trouble, the rest is obvious. See my previous posts if you really want to get ticked off.
So liberal folks and conservatives alike don't like to talk to me. My guess is, you'll never read this blog again. Nice not meeting you.
Did I mention I don't like pigeons?
Friday, August 07, 2009
Health Insurance
It seems to me the wrong sides are arguing for and against a national health insurance plan. Conservatives are against. Liberals appear to be for.
Long ago, the underwriters would sit around sipping coffee at Lloyd's in London. I was just a baby then and don't remember the details. It seems a shipper would plan a voyage across the seas. There were uncharted reefs and terrific storms. Maybe his ship would make it out and back, maybe not. Since ships cost a lot of money, not to mention the cargo, the shipper would go to the coffee house and talk to the underwriters. They had a chalkboard. They would write the details of the voyage on the board. Then, a large group would get together. The larger the group, the more the risk was diluted. The shipper paid the underwriters some money. In return, the underwriters agreed to share the expenses if the ship were lost. This practice is about as basic a form of capitalism as you can find.
Right now, the folks the conservatives deride do not pay. We who do have insurance pay for them. They get substandard care which prolongs their illness and increases costs. The provider passes the costs on by charging the rest of us more. The only people I can see that have a vested interest in continuing the present system are the providers.
I have read about union folks showing up at town hall meetings. Unions are supposed to be bad. The most powerful union in this country is the AMA. When they show up, you won't be able to get into the parking lot for all the Beamers and Benzes.
All doctors should be required to perform six years of compulsory service in the U.S Public Health Service. In return, they could get part of their fabled student loans forgiven. They get a lot of good experience, to boot.
Anyone who has read my previous posts knows my wife has a Stage IV cancer. They also know it went undiagnosed for at least ten years despite regular checkups and a litany of complaints and symptoms. Her treatments now cost over one hundred thousand dollars a year. We are fortunate that we have health insurance which is, coincidentally, overseen by the Federal government. We cannot be dropped and there is no lifetime max. Hopefully, that will not change, although there are no guarantees in life. I cannot fathom what awaits those people who are stricken with a truly catastrophic illness. Their lifetime maximum may be reached in less than a year.
I just cannot understand an argument against national health insurance. I must assume those who argue against it either have a vested interest in the current debacle or they are completely ill-informed.
If I were truly a liberal, I'd be against this national health insurance. I'd want things to continue as they are. I'd see all these people getting care and hard working folks paying for it with increased insurance premiums. I would not want to have to participate in a health insurance plan and pay to the best of my ability.
It's all backwards, as usual.
Long ago, the underwriters would sit around sipping coffee at Lloyd's in London. I was just a baby then and don't remember the details. It seems a shipper would plan a voyage across the seas. There were uncharted reefs and terrific storms. Maybe his ship would make it out and back, maybe not. Since ships cost a lot of money, not to mention the cargo, the shipper would go to the coffee house and talk to the underwriters. They had a chalkboard. They would write the details of the voyage on the board. Then, a large group would get together. The larger the group, the more the risk was diluted. The shipper paid the underwriters some money. In return, the underwriters agreed to share the expenses if the ship were lost. This practice is about as basic a form of capitalism as you can find.
Right now, the folks the conservatives deride do not pay. We who do have insurance pay for them. They get substandard care which prolongs their illness and increases costs. The provider passes the costs on by charging the rest of us more. The only people I can see that have a vested interest in continuing the present system are the providers.
I have read about union folks showing up at town hall meetings. Unions are supposed to be bad. The most powerful union in this country is the AMA. When they show up, you won't be able to get into the parking lot for all the Beamers and Benzes.
All doctors should be required to perform six years of compulsory service in the U.S Public Health Service. In return, they could get part of their fabled student loans forgiven. They get a lot of good experience, to boot.
Anyone who has read my previous posts knows my wife has a Stage IV cancer. They also know it went undiagnosed for at least ten years despite regular checkups and a litany of complaints and symptoms. Her treatments now cost over one hundred thousand dollars a year. We are fortunate that we have health insurance which is, coincidentally, overseen by the Federal government. We cannot be dropped and there is no lifetime max. Hopefully, that will not change, although there are no guarantees in life. I cannot fathom what awaits those people who are stricken with a truly catastrophic illness. Their lifetime maximum may be reached in less than a year.
I just cannot understand an argument against national health insurance. I must assume those who argue against it either have a vested interest in the current debacle or they are completely ill-informed.
If I were truly a liberal, I'd be against this national health insurance. I'd want things to continue as they are. I'd see all these people getting care and hard working folks paying for it with increased insurance premiums. I would not want to have to participate in a health insurance plan and pay to the best of my ability.
It's all backwards, as usual.
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