Look, this is no longer about who's right, it's about what's right. It cannot be about anything else.
It can't be about left or right. It can't be about liberal or conservative. It can't be about Democrat or Republican. It can't be about cutting education and not government bloat. It can't be politics versus health care versus the environment versus [insert your favorite crisis here]. It can't be about God or Allah or Sam the Butcher. It can't be about black or white or brown or whatever. It can't be about greed. It can't be about sloth. It can't be about gluttony. It can't be about suing someone else for your own stupidity. It can't be about legislating morality, because your morality is likely different from mine. It can't be about cynicism , racism, fascism, socialism, cronyism, ageism, criticism, sarcasm, or any other ism or asm. It can't be about discrimination, recrimination, retribution, exclusion, expulsion, or execution.
What it is about is fixing what's broken. It's about becoming healthier to reduce health care costs. It's about spreading the burden of health care around. The poor have health care...it comes from those of us paying our premiums and our taxes. You cannot be refused treatment in this country by any hospital for any reason. But it still has to be paid for. We just want to legitimize it, see what we're actually paying for it, find away to make someone else pay for it, and eventually realize that we are all paying for it no matter what. It's up to the health care industry to change its corporate mindset and realize that profit is not something we object to. Exorbitant profit is. Bonuses for ripping us of is. Telling us that we can't have a medication or a procedure or a test is.
We need to let businesses succeed or fail on their own. No more taxpayer money to save a corporation. There are other corporations to take their place or take them over. Not another dime to Wall Street, the auto industry, or anyone else. If I don't get a hand out, why the hell should they? If you aren't smart enough or good enough or if, gosh darn it, people just don't like you, time to fold up the tents and move on. Thanks Senator Franken for not suing me for paraphrasing one of your SNL characters. Sorry, GE, there is no little r in a circle emblem available for this blog, so please don't sue me either.
We need a financial system that is not faith-based because I for one have no more faith in it. We need something tangible and of a fixed value to base our currency on. And don't look at me for the answer, I have no idea what that might be. But we must get away from this phony economy, and that's globally, not just here. The entire thing is a house of cards, is all made up, and exists only because we say it does. Kinda like God.
But I digress. I warned you about that in the very first post.
It has to be about curtailing government spending at every level, not in cutting services and education. Along with a real monetary standard must come the end of deficit spending and made up debts. Like the rest of us, the government must operate within its budget. Whatever happened to negotiation? Used to be, if Bob had something that you wanted and he said he'd sell it to you for $10, which is what it was worth to him, but to you it only seemed worth $5, you gave him $7.50 and shook hands. We could just chuck the whole damn mess and go back to barter. A chicken for a hernia operation sounds ok to me.
The entire cultural mindset has to change. I don't know the names of a single neighbor where we live. We're more or at least as interested in what the latest celebrity gossip is as we are in what's really important. It can't be about our differences anymore, it has to be about our similarities. We are all on this planet and as such we all have a right to be here. We have a right to agree or disagree with how others live their lives, but we have no right to force them to change or even try to. Every person on this planet ultimately wants the same things: A safe place to live, some variation of a family, reasonably tasty food, at least basic creature comforts, and sex. All without the interference of others but with those of a like mind. In other words, it you don't like where you are, be somewhere else. Intolerance disappears when you like everyone around you.
Now, before you go all MLK on me, I'm suggesting self imposed and regulated segregation. Look, it makes sense. To avoid serious conflict, lives among those you choose, who choose you, and don't try to make others like you.
You can't have a war if nobody fights.
Ok, so I'm having a bit of a Rodney King moment, and it's far too Utopian to ever work. I'm saying it's what we need, but people are too stupid to realize it. I'm beginning to think that perhaps we've crossed and confused the DNA a few too many times. I'm buying a banjo next week, just in case.
Of course, we've come too far to ever go back. I'm afraid we are stuck in this headlong descent into Irish Setter territory. They are, of course, the stupidest creatures of their ilk. They are the equivalent of a pet rock emotionally and a Looney-Tunes (R) Tasmanian devil on crack simultaneously. As stupid as they are beautiful. Tragic. Of course, by then we won't really give a shit as long as there's something dead to chew on.
This may have been my last post. I'm pretty fed up with the whole fucking mess. I believe that I may have tilted at my last windmill.
Maybe.
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