The Five-Percenters

So President Obama lied about the people getting to keep their insurance if they wanted to. First off, we need to remember that upon election night in 2008, the Republican reaction was that they were to make Obama a one-term president and they way to do that was to veto anything proposed and isolate. His first three years was trying way too hard to reach across the aisle and basically going against some of his own policies (using federal government to shut down dispensaries in California) to reach out. Everything he did was stepped away from. Republican ideas and programs were not theirs anymore and rejected (like Simpson-Bowles, Syria). Even while Obamacare was being put together he said that if anyone had any suggestions, he's open to it. No one did a fucking thing.

Granted, it would be better with a single-payer system, especially without employers having to foot the bill, but he even said that if we could start from scratch we'd do it differently, but he's giving consessions to the hugely, fuckhead insurance industry. Last week's NY Times had an article about rural areas not having options for competition in their areas. Well, with a public option that would be resolved. It's the same idea of how a country as a whole helps out each other, the same way rural counties can afford to survive with help from big-city tax dollars, the same way in which Deb Fischer (sp) is a Tea Party idiot for leave-it-to-the-states mentality, though before becoming a senator, she used aggressive tactics to get Omaha and Lincoln tax money to help her rural district.

So people who are against any changes or Obamacare, to me, are either selfish,greedy, misinformed, underinformed, or all of them. This recent event last week where people were getting notices in the mail that their policies are being cancelled will affect 5% of the US population, mainly wealthier people with great insurance. That's nothing compared to the rest of the population it will benefit and the surplus it will bring to the economy and other myriad positive impacts such as saving lives and not ruining lives financially and evening the playing field - that evil mindset that corporate dickheads are so adamantly against.

So why is their such an uproar for just a small minority of a population? This coming from the people who use welfare abuse and voter fraud as rampant ideological strong-points forming their devout beliefs when, in actuality, less than 2% (a number that could not affect anything) do those things. It seems silly that us as a people can go to this level of intellect and not understand politics. Most people in this country are not directly affected by things (or don't think they are) so they are complacent enough to watch a newsbroadcast or a pundits opinion to inform them. A basic level of understanding and knowledge will show people that when corporations get breaks like corporate welfare and tax breaks, low minimum wages, less regulation, no universal health care, they are footing the bills. Not the wealthy or corporations. Hidden in medical insurance payments are footing the bill for non-insured Emergency Room visits which tax payers (meaning non-wealthy, mostly middle class people) are also paying for.

And I'm glad someone mentioned it, because I've been using it as my argument for years. But the minimum wage should be a wage that you can work full time and make a living on. If you don't pay employees a living wage, they have to die or depend on the government. So then again, it's us paying their wages (in essence) or the million-billion dollar industry corporations paying them a decent wage. But if places like Wal-Mart don't, the taxpayers are left to help these individuals and their employees are forced to shop at Wal-Mart. And the arguments against raising the minimum wage, or servers' wages, or any argument from the top have all been debunked by economists and real-life examples. So assholes like John Schnatter from that shitty pizza chain saying from his mansion with a full-fucking golf course that he doesn't want to give his employees benefits or pay them more is just a fucking asshole. Having that much wealth and saying you can't cut into his profits a little (still would be in the millions) so the people who are allowing him this lifestyle of success can get-by decently, how do you live with yourself? And I'm going on a limb here to say he's probably a Christian.

Americans need to put down the fucking technology for a minute and self-reflect and see itself changing directions to make this place the actual ideal place they keep referring to. We keep shouting slogans and holding to our ideological beliefs but not realizing the greed and selfishness we're teaching our children. We hold up ideals of stature and properness and holiness yet our culture is so fucking deteriorated because we ignore what we don't know or understand, mostly willingly.

Phil Hendrie's show would have his characters portray controversial viewpoints on an array of subjects like racism, child molestation, vigilante citizen patrol watches, etc. The point was humor with some informational aspects, but mostly humor and twisted reality in order to get people mad and call to argue. Calls would be like people asking why he would let someone like this on the air, or that they had never listened to his show before and never will again. This always struck me as odd. The characters are fictional, but there is a level of reality to it all and, if there is, I would like to know about it. Why would you not want to know about something you disagree with? Then when something big happens, they all start looking at who to blame. Our society has created a plethora of examples of this, especially in recent years, especially with the proliferation of technology and the ability to self-isolate and still survive.

We demonize socialism (which I'm not for or against, but you take the good things from some and work towards a better one) yet in places such as Denmark, where people are mostly equal, they are happy. Everyone is taken care of and thriving. The picture there is what ideological people on the far-right, conservative, Tea Party type of mentality is portraying on the surface level. But below it is decaying and imploding to a point where people being affected by it do not even realize it, and if we don't realize it sooner than later it may be too late.