The start of this little rant may not make sense completely as it was written in response to a friend of mine on Facebook. But I spent a shit load of time on it and wanted to share it with you kids as well...
Fining insurance companies is not going to make them change their ways. If anything they will find more loop holes. They have an army of lawyers that do just that, dig through mountains of law to find a way to sneak through.
This will also impact small business in a huge way. By requiring all employers to provide "approved" health care options is going to stifle the innovation that America was once known for.
Let’s pretend that a fellow by the name of Bill drops out of college. He is a smart dude that wants to make something called an operating system. So he gets a few friends together and they start working out of their garage making punch card machines more or less. Well Mr. Government finds out about this. They are pretty pissed that Bill did not provide affordable health insurance for his employees so the IRS comes in and fines the ever living hell out him for being a law breaker. Bill goes bankrupt and has to spend a stint inside. Now where are we?
It is only affordable because taxes are being raised across the board. Something that President Obama promised would not happen. And again, this is all under the assumption that this program is going to run just as planned. The CBO numbers that came out are not even firm numbers. It’s a shot in the dark.
Why not address healthcare in some other ways that I have mentioned? Tort reform and offering incentives for preventive care. How about enabling people to find their passion and help them get on the path to getting a career. Wouldn’t that serve society better as a whole? There are fringe cases where people simply cannot afford to provide for themselves but in the past it has been the compassion of others that have helped them out the most. But because we have changed our priorities as a whole we do not raise our children to help the needy and pitch in a few bucks here in there to help good honest people get back on their feet. We are to worried about gossip magazines and playing left vs. right to address the serious underlying issues we have created ourselves. We are so busy telling everyone how down trodden they are that it because a self fulfilling prophecy. It becomes easy to blame your strife on the world when everyone around you tells you how deep of a hole you are and how you will never get out.
We are enabling people to sit around and make them dollars rather than showing and or forcing them a way to provide for themselves. When I was working at Safeway I saw a gentleman in line pay for some milk and cheese with food stamps or WIC whatever it was. Which is fine, I was a poor college kid with a new born and I used WIC. But the difference between him and I is I did not buy a carton of Newport’s when I was on WIC. A carton at that time was around 75 bucks for Newport’s. He then went outside and hoped in his SUV with chrome 20's on it. So figure a couple of grand for the rims alone. Plus another couple hundred for tires. So why exactly is this guy using food stamps? It breaks down to the old saying; fish for a man feed him for a day, teach him to fish feed him for life. People are comfortable in their poverty. Why get a job or go to school when you get free housing, healthcare, and schooling. And you still get to drive the nice care and smoke 80 dollars worth of smokes in a week and a half.
The issue is not cut and dry. But Congress along with our President has treated it as it is. There was no debate it was twisted into a left versus right issue and everyone bought into it hook line and sinker. On other pages and websites I see a boat load of "Well Bush did...." comments. What Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan whoever did does not justify another wrong. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. And most of the complaints that folks have about Bush was because the tactics he used to get things like the Patriot Act approved where viewed as horrid. Well what tactics where used to get this passed? There was nothing American about passing either of these bills. No debate, no discussion, no independent reviews of the issues. It was a hammer, a square peg and a round hole.
I have no desire nor do I take great pleasure in seeing folks down on their luck and I have no issue with extending a hand. But if that is all they are doing is simply lifting a hand then sadly there is nothing I can do for you. I have faced hardship as have all of you. And did you not feel stronger and more confident after you met the challenge?
This legislation just highlights how broken our government is. Insurance providers and doctors are not the issue here. It is an issue of the federal government over steping its bounds and the American people sitting by with idle hands shrugging it off because "we cannot change it". It’s the lesser of two evils etc. etc. It’s only the lesser of two evils because that is the beast that we have bred. And guess what, we made the beast and we can slay it. But it takes an educated and well informed populous to make it happen. It takes independent thinkers who are willing to put the effort into researching the issues and asking pointed questions. Because I am sorry if you stick to mainstream media and mainstream only then you are missing out. Even more so if you stick to either ABC or Fox. You are getting maybe a quarter of the information you need to make a decision.
Anyway, that is my crazy ass warmongering right wing nut job opinion.
Fining insurance companies is not going to make them change their ways. If anything they will find more loop holes. They have an army of lawyers that do just that, dig through mountains of law to find a way to sneak through.
This will also impact small business in a huge way. By requiring all employers to provide "approved" health care options is going to stifle the innovation that America was once known for.
Let’s pretend that a fellow by the name of Bill drops out of college. He is a smart dude that wants to make something called an operating system. So he gets a few friends together and they start working out of their garage making punch card machines more or less. Well Mr. Government finds out about this. They are pretty pissed that Bill did not provide affordable health insurance for his employees so the IRS comes in and fines the ever living hell out him for being a law breaker. Bill goes bankrupt and has to spend a stint inside. Now where are we?
It is only affordable because taxes are being raised across the board. Something that President Obama promised would not happen. And again, this is all under the assumption that this program is going to run just as planned. The CBO numbers that came out are not even firm numbers. It’s a shot in the dark.
Why not address healthcare in some other ways that I have mentioned? Tort reform and offering incentives for preventive care. How about enabling people to find their passion and help them get on the path to getting a career. Wouldn’t that serve society better as a whole? There are fringe cases where people simply cannot afford to provide for themselves but in the past it has been the compassion of others that have helped them out the most. But because we have changed our priorities as a whole we do not raise our children to help the needy and pitch in a few bucks here in there to help good honest people get back on their feet. We are to worried about gossip magazines and playing left vs. right to address the serious underlying issues we have created ourselves. We are so busy telling everyone how down trodden they are that it because a self fulfilling prophecy. It becomes easy to blame your strife on the world when everyone around you tells you how deep of a hole you are and how you will never get out.
We are enabling people to sit around and make them dollars rather than showing and or forcing them a way to provide for themselves. When I was working at Safeway I saw a gentleman in line pay for some milk and cheese with food stamps or WIC whatever it was. Which is fine, I was a poor college kid with a new born and I used WIC. But the difference between him and I is I did not buy a carton of Newport’s when I was on WIC. A carton at that time was around 75 bucks for Newport’s. He then went outside and hoped in his SUV with chrome 20's on it. So figure a couple of grand for the rims alone. Plus another couple hundred for tires. So why exactly is this guy using food stamps? It breaks down to the old saying; fish for a man feed him for a day, teach him to fish feed him for life. People are comfortable in their poverty. Why get a job or go to school when you get free housing, healthcare, and schooling. And you still get to drive the nice care and smoke 80 dollars worth of smokes in a week and a half.
The issue is not cut and dry. But Congress along with our President has treated it as it is. There was no debate it was twisted into a left versus right issue and everyone bought into it hook line and sinker. On other pages and websites I see a boat load of "Well Bush did...." comments. What Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan whoever did does not justify another wrong. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. And most of the complaints that folks have about Bush was because the tactics he used to get things like the Patriot Act approved where viewed as horrid. Well what tactics where used to get this passed? There was nothing American about passing either of these bills. No debate, no discussion, no independent reviews of the issues. It was a hammer, a square peg and a round hole.
I have no desire nor do I take great pleasure in seeing folks down on their luck and I have no issue with extending a hand. But if that is all they are doing is simply lifting a hand then sadly there is nothing I can do for you. I have faced hardship as have all of you. And did you not feel stronger and more confident after you met the challenge?
This legislation just highlights how broken our government is. Insurance providers and doctors are not the issue here. It is an issue of the federal government over steping its bounds and the American people sitting by with idle hands shrugging it off because "we cannot change it". It’s the lesser of two evils etc. etc. It’s only the lesser of two evils because that is the beast that we have bred. And guess what, we made the beast and we can slay it. But it takes an educated and well informed populous to make it happen. It takes independent thinkers who are willing to put the effort into researching the issues and asking pointed questions. Because I am sorry if you stick to mainstream media and mainstream only then you are missing out. Even more so if you stick to either ABC or Fox. You are getting maybe a quarter of the information you need to make a decision.
Anyway, that is my crazy ass warmongering right wing nut job opinion.