Funny, a LOT of people I know who are bitching up a storm about this healthcare bill and farewell, America, and how much it's going to cost, are the same ones who NEVER seem to have one negative word to say about spending trillions of dollars and thousands of lives liberating a country that we at least THOUGHT maybe had some weapons that they shouldn't have had.
My brother said to my mother, via Facebook:
Tonight we got a chance to witness, firsthand, the first part of an effort by the Democrats to forcibly dismantle the country that I grew up in and love. They want to change it to something the founding fathers never intended it to be, and have ignored every bit of protest against it. They were going to have this, no matter what it costs them. It's disgusting.
Mrs. Cozmo directed me to a comment I quite liked, regarding people who love to constantly bang the "Founding Fathers Drum":
Not a single one of them could have forseen how complex the world is today.
I know how unique the founding of our country was and I appreciate the effort and sacrifice made by so many of our predecessors. But so many people refer to the intentions of the Founding Fathers when trying to decide what our policies should be today.
Our founding fathers were a product of their time and as such they wanted to govern based on those times. If any one of them were around today they would likely go insane trying to lead this country. Besides, they created a country with the intentions of the country actually advancing. Advancement brings with it change. And some change is good and some may be bad. But we need to make our decisions based on the realities of today, not by looking back at a group of people who had no possible way of knowing what obstacles would present themselves.
So founding fathers, my ass. This country wasn't just running along, doing AWESOME until the big bad Democrats came along and fucked with the founding fathers, on a healthcare issue.
Admittedly, I don't know a whole lot about politics or this healthcare bill in specific. For me, politics is generally like the verbal equivalent of watching paint dry. As far as this whole healthcare thing is concerned, I think about the fact that forever and a day, you hear people bitching about how awful and unfair and stick it to the consumer the whole health care system in this country is. Now that someone wants to attempt to do something about it, suddenly, somehow, the old system that f*cked you 234 different ways from Sunday is just fine? WTF?