Shame on the Democrats – Big Time!
Why are we being bombarded daily, especially from the LEFT over this HEALTH-CARE issue? This is what President Obama ran on and promised to do once in office. How can our party come apart like this? Wasn’t our years roaming the outlands bad enough while ruthless, greedy, insensitive leaders impoverished the “middle-class’ to the extent that they disappeared into homelessness, need and desperation? Do not take hope away from those who still have a trace of it left. This was a major issue Barack Obama ran on. The people believed him and responded – we are counting on him now But he cannot fight this alone or with just Speaker Pelosi (tho, thank God for her), and a rare Sherrod Brown (Ohio thanks God daily for him) and Dennis Kucinich, one of the purist jewels of the bunch.
Where are all those other elected Democrats? A party can not be, unless there is Team Spirit and cohesiveness. There are too many egos with separate agendas for actual accomplishment to form and happen. Everybody is fighting. Hell, I was too because as I see it, the only way to truly reform this gigantic mess is to truly start over and the redraw the whole thing with single-payer. No one can deny that social security has been successful. Where would several generations of elders be without it? It indeed, did work no matter how much carping goes on about it. No one likes to pay for anything which pardon my saying so expresses a consciousness of lack which ultimately will keep us mired in – - LACK. We should be grateful to be able to spend lavishly and wholeheartedly assure that all shall be treated to medical care as a matter of fair treatment under the law of our land.
So yes, I had my preferences too which I have had to cede to the higher good and to a man I trust. I am willing to leave it to more educated minds than mine to figure out ways to handle the financial end of this stuff. It can be done. But with the Insurance companies “out of the way,” the profit picture changes so dramatically as to be radically unrecognizable. That’s a good thing. You think that the savings realized wouldn’t more than compensate for the burden that our “public option” plan would lead to? There is no question whatsoever that all this could be done through taxes alone without citizenry having to pay for medical care individually. The middlemen are removed from the equation, and with the streamlining already laid out with certain modernizations – - this could be magnificent. Herein lies the problem.
Without that MONEY from the corporate Insurance industry and its related medical community (AMA) and Big Pharma, how would all those “poor” senators and “congressmen and women” finance their careers? How could they get those votes if they had no money to pay for all this stuff? Even tho President Obama said he was going to change the way business was done in Washington – - that corporate America was no longer going to “run things” there, it is beginning to sound like its too late already. If there is no will to do, why of course it can’t be done. But please, lets call a spade a spade. Finding the cleanest path to HEALTH-CARE REFORM appears not to be what is going on, but rather, how to preserve the status-quo (staying alive politically) while going through the motions NEWSFLASH: FAIL US NOW AND YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD! The Independant party is about to grow big time.
This man we elected to the presidency was pursuing the higher road, wanted to serve the needs of the people with the promise that Corporate America would no longer RULE. He has done almost everything totally right, so cool, pragmatic – just what we needed. But he is being severely undermined. This smart, savvy man has a plan and can get it done – we’ve never had this opportunity before! So why must this great resistance loom so large now while the wind is still at our back and the public is hugely in Barack’s corner maintaining faith in him with massive margins asking for the “public option”
Our party must decide and quickly – integrity or greed. What’s it gonna be, believe me, we are ALL WATCHING!
