I was sitting in the park today, eating lunch in the warmth of my car, watching the ducks scamper around looking for whatever they eat...and listening to the radio, while snugly sitting there in my car under a cloudless winter sky.
I reflected on how over the summer and through the fall numerous news sources have informed me that " National health care is a tough fight" or on Fox "Health Care bill is dead" and thinking, whats so tough? As soon as they cobble together a big enough, bloated enough, cost ineffective bill, it surely will pass, they have the votes. I did not even contemplate the bribery factor to get the votes. Bribery, pork, whatever...there are otherwise good people in prison from congress for say taking a trip to Cancun in exchange for moving a bill through, or accepting a vacation or whatever. Yet apparently when its indirect, as in your state gets to NOT pay for something, and pass the buck to the other states, that's OK?
Is it any wonder that lately the "give me's" have taken center stage? The commentary on the radio was a repeat of JFK's inaugural speech, the one where he spoke moving words, and we all knew he meant it. Things that inspired us to be proud Americans, "... Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Tough words...and shortly thereafter tested, remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The most recognised phrase, " And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." spoke of our need to serve our fellow citizens, to in some way serve our nation, in part to repay for the American heritage of freedom.
Yet by this time tomorrow, that will have ended. That national drive to do for ourselves, to achieve great things is being usurped by a continuous drive of government not of the people, but with a emphasis on what government can do for the people...things we used to do for ourselves...yes, sometimes with government help, but as a hand up, not a hand out.
As my (least) favorite Senator Chuckie Schumer put it so well in the stimulus debate...Americans don't care...Well, Chuck, Nancy and associates, hopefully in November 2010 we Americans will tell you to STFU...maybe. If Chuck is right, if we really don't care, well what can i say? How sad.
"... but with a emphasis on what government can do for the people"
ReplyDeleteNo, but with an emphasis on what government can do for the corporations, the drug corporations, the health insurance corporations, the healthcare corporations; for that is where their interest is now held. Congress could care less about what they can do for the people, they don't care about the people. They only care for those who line their pockets.
I agree with you on this...sad but true that our politicians are a bunch of self serving dimbulbs...
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