Health Care Initiative 09 and Paying the Ultimate Price for Change
July 19th 2009 15:45
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.
~ C. Wright Mills
~ C. Wright Mills
Somewhere hidden behind the craters of agendas from the left and right is a place for the American people to find a safe haven to focus on the issues.
The issues of taking a deeper look at the hot button topics we watch journalists and politicians yell and scream at each other over without having the willingness or the foresight to take a step back in search of the fundamentals.
The fundamentals of a broken system of health care that equates an Americans access to needed medical care with the number of zeroes that exist in their bank account.
The fundamentals of a system of health care that says the best doctors are only available to the privileged few who can afford to pay the bill or the people who were lucky enough not to have pre existing conditions before reaching the stage of life where they could afford health care coverage.
When we look at these fundamentals and these fundamentals alone any rational person would ask the questions that need to be asked of a government that isn’t looking out for the needs of her people.
There are some people in our society who are doing just that but this discussion is not about the fundamentals of our humanity nor is it about a cold and calculated plan to prevent one side from collecting political points at the expense of the other.
What we have is a strong case of bad timing from a Democratic Party who chose to build larger than life heroes and use them as mandates to pass radical spending agendas that is swallowing our nation in debt.
The tide began with a rallying cry to spend or have our economy go broke as President Obama went on a coast to coast tour with fear filled speeches to invoke the passions that surrounded election “08” with the goal of forcing the hands of those who stood in the way of his bold agenda.
Election “08” served as lesson in political action against a President who reached his term limit but the only rewards the American people have gotten for their rediscovery of the political process is a host of banks reaping record profits from taxpayer money that was loaned to them or banks on the other side of the coin going out of business in a feast or famine atmosphere.
Two bankrupt and twice bailed out US automakers who now have our money flowing through the Italian economy along with dividends of a broken company now owned for better or worse by the American people.
A host of jobs that were created in sectors of the economy that are doing nothing to stem the tide of unemployment numbers on Main Street America.
After a harsh lesson of what happens when a Fire sale goes wrong the American people are now being asked to raid the piggy bank yet again with another Trillion Dollar package in a do or die scenario.
A do or die scenario that grabs the heart strings of an American public that is always looking to do the right thing for our fellow man in creating a “fair system”.
The reality of the Health Care proposal that is making its way through the halls of Capitol Hill is within the fact that it is anything but fair in all of its versions.
In order to “do the right thing” in opening up access to health care for hundreds of thousands of Americans who are currently going with out, our government is asking a portion of our society to empty their pockets with the blind sided hope that the projected numbers are correct and the spiral effect will not fall squarely on a struggling and disappearing middle class.
Notions like this are dangerous in times of prosperity and should send a chilling affect down the spines of each and every American during times of economic uncertainty.
What get’s me are the bold assurances coming from the oval office without any results to back up their claims.
Assurances that say the American people should sit on their hands and wait when promises delivered along partisan lines are being met without results.
Businesses are closing their doors in small town and corporate America as big name companies are falling victim to an economic crisis that has no respect to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender or social class.
In the wake of this disaster unemployment numbers are sky rocketing to record levels and the only response received from the White House to the American people is for us to keep spending or go broke.
Spending in the places that aren’t filtering into the realities of the problem on the unemployment line in a cold partisan stance that is turning the tide of hope in a better America where good ideas were supposed to be good ideas no matter if it came from a Democrat or Republican.
The opportunity for us to get it right is diminishing for every second we spend in our red and blue camps as the process of burying our heads in the sand passes down from generation to generation.
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