09-27-2009, 04:34 AM
Sadly, some have exploited the fact that so many are feeling insecure right now, are uninsured and do not have health care at all. The proposed solution is to encourage a race to the bottom where NO workers have health care, pensions, or any sort of job security. That place is called Mexico. I don't want to live there. Capitalism the way it is practiced today is unpatriotic. It recognizes no state or national boundaries. It only seeks to create two classes: the very rich, who have healthcare, and worker bees.
The idea that we should "take down" those that have health care so that they will be on the level of private enterprise is....well, it's a surprisingly effective form of propaganda on the part of anti-democratic and anti-American capitalists living in New York, Dubai, Houston and Bejing. They could care less about Hawaii.
Instead of tearing down government workers, we should be working to ensure that everyone has a modicum of security. To suggest that teachers do nothing is, I think, incorrect. I thank God for the education I received in California public schools in the '50's and for the Californians who supported it through their taxes. My parents were upper-lower class Texans. My dad dug ditches for a living and never graduated from high school. I have a doctorate -- thanks to my own efforts and to the contributions of the then-wise citizens of California who understood, at the time, the need to invest in our future, in our infrastructure and to have a functioning, working Government.
For an older person like me, it is heartbreaking to see the lines outside the DMV, stretching into the parking lot. Ridiculous.
Government isn't the problem. It's the solution. Anti-democratic and unpatriotic capitalists would have you believe otherwise. They don't want to pay for healthcare. They don't want to provide pensions. They want people to be fungible, expendable and compliant.
The best way to give them what they want is to try and tear down government workers, and the government itself, rather than trying to ensure that all of our citizens have a more secure future, including universal health care.
That's just the beginning of my rant. Don't make me go on, and don't make me come over there.
The idea that we should "take down" those that have health care so that they will be on the level of private enterprise is....well, it's a surprisingly effective form of propaganda on the part of anti-democratic and anti-American capitalists living in New York, Dubai, Houston and Bejing. They could care less about Hawaii.
Instead of tearing down government workers, we should be working to ensure that everyone has a modicum of security. To suggest that teachers do nothing is, I think, incorrect. I thank God for the education I received in California public schools in the '50's and for the Californians who supported it through their taxes. My parents were upper-lower class Texans. My dad dug ditches for a living and never graduated from high school. I have a doctorate -- thanks to my own efforts and to the contributions of the then-wise citizens of California who understood, at the time, the need to invest in our future, in our infrastructure and to have a functioning, working Government.
For an older person like me, it is heartbreaking to see the lines outside the DMV, stretching into the parking lot. Ridiculous.
Government isn't the problem. It's the solution. Anti-democratic and unpatriotic capitalists would have you believe otherwise. They don't want to pay for healthcare. They don't want to provide pensions. They want people to be fungible, expendable and compliant.
The best way to give them what they want is to try and tear down government workers, and the government itself, rather than trying to ensure that all of our citizens have a more secure future, including universal health care.
That's just the beginning of my rant. Don't make me go on, and don't make me come over there.