Bills! Congress! Insurance! Oh my!

I'd like to start off this post that two people will read by saying that Ezra Stein calling the American Government a "non-grown up political culture" was probably the highlight of my week. Infants could run Congress with more transparency than the majority of our elected representatives. Luckily our President, who promised the utmost disclosure by saying C-SPAN would be included on all major bills discussed in the house, has forged this bill mostly behind closed doors. I'm not yet on the tip of hating all over or even being disappointed in Obama. Too many people are too quick to jump onto a political bandwagon they do not understand. I admit that little has been done so far by his administration that was promised on the campaign trail but let's be realistic here. We should all be jaded enough at this point to expect little yield from campaign promises. Bush promised "Compassionate conservatism" as well as reaching out an olive branch to the Democrats in order to work together. Look how well that turned out. He strengthened his party, sure. But at the expense of the American people. As well as developing the most extremist version of conservatism we've yet to see and strengthening the audience of political pundits and hate mongering fuckheads like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Come on people. If you expect politicians to live up to all of their promises then you really have not been paying attention to politics since Nixon screwed up with Watergate.

That being said...da da da! Here comes the health care bill! A mostly moderate bill that promises to have more government involvement in health care, lowering cost in order to make health care more accessible and affordable. I have not read the 3 trillion page Congressional bill myself but more than likely it's a lot of fine print that says very little, as the majority of bills do. The media goes ape shit. The Republicans show their fundamentalist colors by screaming "SOCIALISM" while protesting under tax-funded street lights while a post office truck rolls by. Shocking. The unintelligent, misinformed, barely literate members of the right (not saying that they all are, mind you. Just the tea bagging retards) crawl out of the wood work and look to their heroic leader, Glenn Beck, to tell them what to think. None of this is remotely new. We've been watching this shit storm parade for 10 years. The Daily Show makes fun of everyone for taking themselves so seriously, we all get a good laugh, and everyone has a glass of wine before bed so they can sleep better because they cannot afford prescription sleeping bills for their severe insomnia and they gotta work in the morning.

Meanwhile, single working Mother (cliched example I know but in this instance it is my Mom so shut your judgmental trap) who waits tables from 5-midnight and goes to community college from 8 in the morning until 3 when she picks up her two kids from school and drops them at the sitter before headed to work has her daughter, who is in a government funded after care program because her mother cannot afford sitters six days a week, falls off the jungle gym and breaks her arm. Rush to the ER to get the bone set. Mom pays the bill with her RENT MONEY and that week Mom, Misty, and Amber stand in line for government issued cheese, milk, and bread, before going back to their section 8 apartment. Fuck you if you think this bill is bullshit. This bill will help millions of people and is completely a step in the right direction. Social reform programs and government funding is the backbone and tenet of this damn country. Without it we'd be lost. Communism? Socialism? Really? What is this 1981? Who cares?!?

Give the man some bleeding credit. In the mostly highly over-bureaucratized system in the world today passing anything is nothing short of a miracle. Let's all just grab some popcorn, put a doctor's office on our speed dial, and watch it all unfold. I'll tell you this, I'm looking forward to the ride. This is going to be nothing if not entertaining.

This is not my two cents, this is my co-pay. Below you will find a picture of a puppy to make it all seem okay.



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