I have no sense of reality? That's fucking hillarious. The only reality you know is what you've been brainwashed to believe. Soldier and son of Republican politician. Gee, I do wonder where your ideas and preconceived notions come from.
My father the politician can into office as mayor of a town that was dying from the receding timber industry. That was after COUNTLESS hours of community service to get himself in line to run for mayor in the first place. After getting down to business he, and the mayors who came after him (he's always been in the background since he left office) were able to land us a Walmart in the early 90's. Sounds dumb but it saved our town.
Now we have a super Wall-Mart, and Lowe's is building the largest commercial building in Oregon there. Over 700 family wage full time jobs with benefits. He also volunteers as a Lyon's club member, working to get eyeglasses to our lower income elderly and helping to over see a Organ Donor transport program which saves lives and lively hood daily. Oh yeah he also got a 7 million dollar fairground and amphitheatre which will draw further revenue for the city.
I was in the Air force, in fact after 911 I worked 16hr shifts as a security augmentee protecting satellite monitoring facilities in a foreign country. Probably while you were sitting on your ass smoking weed and listening to Bob Marley and hanging out with the street gangs your always so proud to talk about. LOL I swear, white culture's fascination with "being down".
Now that I'm out and making my way in the world I also contribute to society. I was on a board that allocated an additional $15,000 annually so help our Boys and Girls club grow to keep kids off the streets. I guess you could say that was a product of my "brainwashing".
I would argue that infact you sir are brainwashed, and for god sakes I hope they did the washing by hand as it would be far to small a load to warrant even the low water setting on most household washers.
My point is that many people (and I'm just going to go out on a limb and claim you are one of them Blanco) sacrifice NONE of their time to make this world better. You expect your government to do it, while claiming the government can't do anything right, and then blame the government when thing don't change.
Open minded? I've lived throughout the world, experienced shit way above your average joe. Have you even lived outside of California?
Government health care is wrong be cause it pays for childbirth and doesn't further educate teens to prevent teen pregnancy. It pays for health care for single mothers in urban communities without trying to figure out why father's are leaving their families.
Metaphor: When you treat a chronic pain with Advil you stay on Advil for the rest of your life and you only need more and more as time goes on.
Well doing that with health care by raising my taxes is unacceptable and YOU should be open minded enough, and smart enough, to understand that.