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Monday, August 17, 2009

Why Do You Hate America?

I personally am sick and tired of the Blame America First crowd who think that the greatest government in the world is totally incompetent and unable to run something as complex as a National Healthcare system better than a board of directors picked from a pool of ... well, the kind of people who become directors. Why do you hate America? What do you think makes it different from every other country on earth? It is that we ARE the government. If it doesn't work, it is our own fault. Personally, I would rather trust my health to an organization that only exists BY the people, FOR the people and OF the people, and in which I have SOME form of redress, than an insurance company that exists to make money from me, makes more by NOT providing care, and which only answers to its board members. Which, BTW, is why I prefer the Marines to Blackwater and the Army Corps of Engineers to Halliburton. 

Sure, you can take the view that you personally have the greatest healthcare in the world, that you EARNED it and DESERVE it and those great unwashed masses ought to find their own way and keep their grubby little hands off of your stuff. But that is not only amoral and selfish, it is stupid and will ultimately lead to your downfall. They won't eat cake. Ask Marie. But if you have any semblence of humanity and agree that NO ONE in the richest nation in the history of the world should die because their parents couldn't afford an MRI, what POSSIBLE organization has more resources, ability, power and accountability than the United States Government?

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