If you don’t have concerns over this healthcare bill, check your pulse. While discussing it the other day, I finally conceded that I just didn’t know what was happening. This bill is so complex, and so involved, if you know exactly what’s in it, you’re lying. I’ve been asked by several people recently why this has to rushed through? Why does it have to happen right now? (more…)
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Why healthcare at hyperspeed?
Monday, December 21st, 2009Calming Political Waters
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009It seems that the more I get in touch with my “everyday-on-the-street-energy”, the more I see the extreme points of view in politics fading from legitimacy. I was so angry with people yelling down alternative points of view in the healthcare debate that I felt stubborn and unyielding. And then, after much thought, I just kind of felt sorry for the right. They’ve been hijacked by the people who live at their edges.
If we can get beyond the talking heads and the media born controversies, imagine what we can actually get done. So many in our media today are feeding the fires of malcontent to feed their advertising bottom lines. At what point do people start to shut down and realize that their willing acceptance of these fallacies do nothing but drum up a nasty little feeling in our guts without giving us the hope to truly reach solutions that we can all be happy with (or somewhat happy). If everyone’s happy, the legislation didn’t do anything.
The more I watch Obama, the more I realize what his strategy is. Let them scream, let them pout, let them lie and distort. In the morning, everyone wakes up, grabs their head and realizes that they acted like real asses the night before.