After having this charge leveled at me numerous times in post-9/11 America, I have to ask it in reverse, do the Republicans hate America? Honestly, I don't think that's true, they certainly love their version of America: polluted, paved and full of pipelines. No, in reality, I think it's more accurate to say that the Republican Party hates Americans.See, they like their Americans like they like America, polluted. They're comfortable with the fact that the nation is full of people who are fat and stupid. They certainly don't have any plans to fix health care and if it weren't for stupid people, they'd have no party leaders. In case you missed it, a RNC memo came out this week detailing how the Republicans should kill health care reform and "break" Obama. This is how they view the world folks, you are not important; your well-being, the well-being of your children, it's irrelevant to them. Your health, your life, it's a commodity, a business, and as long as they have any say in the matter (as well as those "Blue Dog" Democrats), that's what it will continue to be. All that matters to today's Republican Party is money and votes, and if that means they have to stand in the way of America's progress to get those things, then that's okay.
Sounds harsh, but take a look at their reasoning behind opposing Universal Health Care:
"Oh it'll cost too much!"
Yeah, never mind that taxpayers already pay more health costs than any other nation, yet we're the only modernized nation without some form of universal health care.
"Quality of care will drop!"
The WHO ranks us 37th in the world in terms of overall care, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. In terms of life expectancy, we rank 45th, just beating out Cyprus, but below Bermuda. Where do we rank on infant mortality? 32nd. Yeah, we're doing a bang-up job with quality of care.
"There will be an government bureaucrat between you and your doctor!"
As opposed to the insurance company bureaucrat between you and your doctor now? A company stooge whose job it is to keep their costs down, even if it comes at the expense of your health.
"You'll wait forever for treatment!"
Because normally you just fly right through the emergency room and are out of there in no time! As for appointments, I can't even get a goddamn dentist appointment within the next six months.
"The government can't run anything right!"
Yeah, because we still have Republicans. When your party runs on a platform of government being inefficient, maybe you shouldn't be running for positions in government. If we got rid of these roadblocks, we might actually get some work done. And that's really what it comes down to, if you want health care reform, it's time to rid our government of the Republican Party. Like a malignant tumor, we need to surgically remove them with our votes every election cycle.
*PS - bow to my AWESOME MS Paint skills!!!
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Sen. Jim DeMint: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo, it will break him and we will show that we can along with the American people, begin to push those freedom solutions that work in every area of our society."
President Obama: "Just the other day, one Republican senator said -- and I'm quoting him now -- 'If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.' Think about that. This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses, and breaking America's economy."
Keep it up GOP, you're making it easy.
My thoughts exactly about GOP talking points against health care reform. I'll just add in regards to their claims that a public health care option will destroy private health insurance:
1) Did public schools end private schools?
2) So what if it did private health insurance is nothing but an extortion racket anyways.
In regards to cries that it is socialism my response is:
By definition public schools, fire departments, police, and in some places even public water and sewer are examples of socialistic programs. Would we want to give any of them up? Why must everything be about profits? Sometimes society is better served when profit isn't the motivating factor.
By the way, instead of putting green dollar signs over the stars of the GOP logo you should replace the stars with white dollar signs. The GOP doesn't care about states, which the stars represent, all they care about is money and corporate profits.
Yes, clearly Republicans hate Americans.
I go to sleep every night praying for the destruction and misery of poor people throughout the country.
I think you're on to something brilliant here.
Of course I'm onto something... I mean, what else could explain people on the right talking about secession, revolution, or saying things like "we need Osama to detonate a major weapon in the United States"?
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