{"id":768,"date":"2005-01-13T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=768"},"modified":"2005-01-13T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T15:37:12","slug":"blockheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Blockheads"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gov’t<\/strong> always gets what it wants<\/a>, whether it be bogus educational programmes (rote brainwashing), torture<\/a> go<\/a>–aheads<\/a>, or grandiose, tax-payer funded<\/a> coronations for faux princes in cowboy boots.<\/p>\n

Where was Ted Kennedy’s progressive<\/a> plan for Medicare when there was a chance of passing it in Congress? These pretenders are visionaries only so long as the ‘other’ party can be blamed for the initiative’s failure.<\/p>\n

Universal health care is a matter of fiscal responsibility. Either you position armed guards at emergency room doors and make them pay-as-you-go, organise a collection service and erect the crematoriums for the bodies clogging the sewers, or get the insurance companies and Medicare out of my less-than-deep pockets. I know conservatives like to brag that only the insured receive medical assistance but it’s time the rest drop their hospital gowns and take a preventative physical. Special-interests and gov’t shell games are draining our physical, financial, and moral reserves.<\/p>\n

Dear Ted, it doesn’t bother me that when I patronise a minimum-wage paying vendor that their sales team is speaking a foreign language, what irritates me is I can’t understand them. Why is it a foreign exchange student from Brazil can speak 5 languages and Americans can barely communicate in their native tongue? Do you truly believe that raising math and science scores will make the next generation more competetive in a global economy? Talk to me in that Choate-refined tone, Ted, where they taught you how to sabotage the economies of third-world countries but not how to support our own except through excessive taxation of those who can least afford it. We both know the only edge<\/a> America’s children will be given<\/a> is sophisticated weaponry<\/a> that will continue to be dwarfed by the most rudimentary of tools as sure as the illusions of our intellectual and economic<\/a> prowess<\/a> are blown-away by the reality of our shortcomings.<\/p>\n

Isn’t America, the real composite of this dumbed-down, over-indulged herd of haves and have-nots, merging like cement at the bottom of a California mud slide, rather than pouring into the foundation of the beacon beaming brightly at the top of the hill? Flex-time to attend a school play will light-it-up? Who’s directing, Mel Gibson?<\/p>\n

Approaching Chicago on a rail system plagued with mechanical failures and delays, you see miles of decay surrounding a pocket of opulence, and on the Metra Rail that takes worker bees<\/a> from sky-scrapered cubby holes to mortgaged asylums, all I see are hard-working people who go from birth to death supporting gangsters like yourself that got yours the easy way and could care less if most of us get a fair shake, let alone a few years or more unshackled from our yokes.<\/p>\n

This is America<\/a>. These<\/a> are<\/a> our<\/a> friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And to think the best America has to offer brought us to this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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