Is Anyone Listening? Anyone?

So everyone has probably seen all the craziness going on at all of these town hall meetings regarding health care. They are apparently all over the place, from Philadelphia, Atlanta, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the meetings seem to have quite a few people lecturing their, congressman or senators or just yelling at them. Why is everyone screaming and getting all frustrated and what not? Maybe because support for government health care just keeps falling lower and lower, but their own representatives don't seem to be listening. Now commentators, anchors and the congressmen themselves plus anyone else who thinks they know more than we do go on and on about how how disrespectful and angry these people are.

Democratic leaders make it simple for everyone though by saying these people aren't real people. They are organized by insurance companies and other conservative groups to stir up trouble. Or the Speaker of the House just calls them un-American. Lets say that these people are organized by conservative groups, so what? Since when did people in a republic not have a right to organize to have their voice heard better? It doesn't seem to be working anyways.

That is the whole point. People are angry and frustrated at the process. They plainly tell their representatives they don't want government health care, but they get no acknowledgement, no opened ears and no sense of relief from their reps. Lets put it another way, when your boss takes you into his office to tell you that you're not doing your job, he might close the door, raise his voice and yell at you, especially if he has heard the excuses before. He doesn't want you to talk to just listen. The same thing is happening now, people are angry because our employees (we pay their salary) are not listening and they are not doing their jobs.

So maybe they should stop talking and just listen. People can be respectful at the town hall meetings but senators and congressmen should know who they work for and be respect of their bosses. Dennis Moore talkes as if being an elected representative makes him some kind of god and answerable to no one. Well you know what you do with an employee who doesn't do their job? You fire them.

"Because I Don't Want To Pay For It."

So last night I started my class on Human Resources Management and needless to say everything people say about HR is true. It doesn't really do much of anything. But anyways, at one point our instructor asked if we supported government healthcare. I became very worried because through the first six months of my masters progam I haven't heard anything entirely stupid come out of anyones mouth. Luckily, all 21 of us said that we didn't want anything close to socialized medicine. Some people said that because they work in health insurance. Most of us, like myself think its a terrible idea and our insructor looked horrified and asked "Why?!" Then one of friends said "Because I don't want to pay for it."

To start I don't think our current healthcare system is perfect but I sure don't want it in government hands. Tort Reform is the first thing the government needs to tackle. That would allow malpractice insurance rates to finally fall rather then sky rocketing out of control. Will it happen? Heck no because most of our Senators and Representatives are attorneys. Why would they want to do anything that could cut back on other attorneys cost?

Second, businesses should be allowed to do a co-op with health insurance. It would allow small business to pool their cost together and make it more affordable for employers. If this happened how many more people could then be insured? How does the government figure that 40 million people are without insurance anyways? Did they ever take into account that some people don't want to be insured or could be self insured? From time to time people don't need government assistance.

The last point is just what my classmate said. Why should I pay for your healthcare? Why should you pay for mine? We shouldn't, our country is taxed enough as it is. Property tax, sales tax, income tax, any other stupid tax that goes to dumb things. We seem to be taxed more now then during the Revolution! Which is what started the whole thing. If we have socialized healthcare you and I will have to pay for the 27% obese Kansans and 28% obese Missourians. I don't want to do that. So the government solution will have to be to get those people thinner in order to keep cost down. So they will have to mandate their diets. I'm not in favor of people turning into Jared before the Subway commercials, but people should have the freedom to eat what they want.

I could go on and on about waiting list for care, how Candaians come to the US for healthcare but people just need to think this through. Whatever, I just thought we lived in a free country with free markets, apparently I'm wrong and we live in the United Soviet States of America. Comrade.

We've Stopped Global Warming! Oh wait...

As Rachel and I sat here on this Friday night I thought to myself "I wonder what is going on in the world tonight?" So I opened up my trusty Lenovo laptop and low and behold the US House of Representatives has solved the global climate crisis (if their ever was one).

So I did like any other US citizen would do I celebrated. Look at what were doing, the difference that were making in our world. Other nations can now look to the United States and think if they can lower the global temperature by 0.004% then what stops us from lowering it by 0.002%? However, I wasn't done celebrating yet as I still had to think about the jobs that will be going overseas. Why would a business stay in the United States when its utilities cost are going to skyrocket? So I celebrated the loss of American jobs to countries like India and China. Countries who could careless about their greenhouse gases. I don't blame the businesses for leaving. If I owned or operated a company that could move elsewhere I'd bail in a heartbeat because the taxes, regulations and utilities are ridiculious. Those companies that do stay are only going to pass on those cost to consumers and customers. I thought about burning some money in celebration but Rachel stopped me.

Oh finally I wanted to celebrate our own utilities (and yours) going up $770 a year according to the Congressional Budget Office. Aren't we in a recession? Shouldn't people be allow to keep more money in there accounts not lose more money? For a lot of people $770 is no small amount of money and their is always the possiblity that number could be higher. The government does after all make mistakes! Everyday! I know that is a shocker to all 219 representatives who voted for this bill.

Also please note when this bill passed and how quickly it got through. You think Pelosi and her crew wanted people to notice this? Bill passes on a Friday night. When was the last time those slackers in Washington did anything productive on a Friday night?

Going to see your mistress or intern does not count as productive.

Well I've celebrated the continued downslide of our country enough for tonight. Maybe I can write Dennis Moore and ask him to pay for my increased utilities. What does he care he apparently has the money to pay it?