[Warning: This Rant May Contain Strong Use of Language, Descriptive Hostility, Violence Towards Health Care in America, Anarchy, & Cthulhu References.]
Dear America,
First off, get your fucking story straight. No, I am not a Communist. I’m a Socialist. There is a major difference, and though you cannot seem to figure that out, that is not my problem. My problem is that you fall apart like a certain cartoon rabbit from Disney’s “Bonkers” every time someone presents you with actual facts about the differences between these two. You fall back on your old argument, “This is America! We have a democracy!”
Actually, as of late, what has happened is money has taken the place of justice, capitalism has taken the place of democracy, and lunacy has taken the place of idiocy.
Am I glad that our New President (Mr. Barack Obama) has sent a surge of troops into the correct country, unlike our previous president, (Mr. George W. Bush)? Of course. What bothers me, though, is that Congress and Senate can rally together and vote every time on war. They can duke it out for a few days, mull it over in the Oval Office, and sometimes even smoke a few joints and get some blow-jobs while they do so. So why cant they seem to do this for Health Care? Your people are dying, senators. They are legitimately dying. You have Third-World health care workers, who should be overseas in the Congo or bad parts of India, and they are in South L.A. helping people! They are setting up shop, turning football stadiums into clinics in this very country.
There are no excuses anymore. There is nothing. Absolutely nothing. You must sit down and get this right. It will cost the country greatly, and it will probably do some serious bankruptcy to some serious corporations (such as the pharmaceuticals, who I wish the wrath of Cthulhu upon, and that’s on good days). It may even leave us questioning your judgment, but you have to look at the long term!
No more time can be wasted, no more precious time can be tossed away and used to discuss pointless blabber like abortions. Your religion, as Senator Patrick Kennedy has valiantly chosen to display, does not have a place in your politics! If you seriously are trying to convince an entire nations representatives to vote based upon your religious views when an overwhelming percentage of your people are pleading for public options and resolve in the health care crisis (yes it is a crisis!) then get off your hypocritical asses and do something about it!
And Joe Lieberman, you are a schmuck and a fraud. How dare you act so fickle and shrewd in a time of such need. You claim you are looking out for the interests of the people when Steve Benen (a WaMo blogger) pointedly reminded us that you in fact “ran on a Medicare buy-in platform in 2000″. So too many Liberals get excited that they may have got something here, and you vote it down? Were your corn flakes particularly soft that morning? Did your milk stay out of the fridge too long? Or did you skip home-made breakfast all together and go to McDonald’s to get a McSkillet with eggs and cheese and steak and halfway through the day you got the McFarts? I do not understand your logic. In fact, I do not understand America’s logic.
Newsweek writer Jacob Weisberg wrote in an article called “Do as We Say, Not as We Do, The Republican Party’s Health-Care Hypocrisy”:
“In their 2009 Report to Congress, the Medicare trustees estimate that 10-year cost of Medicare Part D is as high as $1.2 trillion. That figure–just for prescription-drug coverage that people over 65 still have to pay a lot of money for–dwarfs the $848 billion cost of the Senate bill … And unlike the Democratic bills, which the Congressional Budget Office says won’t add to the deficit, the bill George W. Bush signed was financed entirely through deficit spending.”
It is seemingly nonsensical why this has been dragged on for so long, and when the nuisance of this all subsides, we can return to worrying about poor Tiger Woods or lamenting over the death of Michael Jackson. But until then, my friends and my countrymen, my fellow college students who have been yet again screwed out of another health-bill even though we’ll be fronting it and taking in most of its effects, it is time we start the Rebellion.
It is time to start the change and to light the fuse. If you don’t like the way the media is feeding you your news, then go be the media. If you do not like the way your government is representing your interests, then go be the government. Stop playing Farmville on Facebook for ten minutes, ask your Guild in World of Warcraft to hold up for just a half hour or so, and write a strict letter to your representative (be he congressman or senator, governor or chairman) and make it clear that you need health care reform. Include a personal story, include pictures of your family, show them your health issues if you feel that you should (it is your right to make that public) and make sure they are aware of the people like you in your state.
We cannot stand here much longer, we cannot take this much longer. We must convene at the state houses, refuse to pay these asshole tuition hikes. We must throw down our worker helmets and throw up our agendas. Be you laborer, artisan, poet, or tech-jockey, student, sales worker, or sandwich artist at the local Subway, you have a right as an American Citizen to get what you deserve. As Jon Stewart said, “When your plate gets full … start eating.” Go into the senate, and kick in some butts.
Sincerely,
Your Friend Ty Duggan :P
Guest Author Bio: Ty Duggan is an avid reader and a film enthusiast. Born in Rhode Island, Ty enjoys playing drums, listening to music and having detailed conversations on politics, faith and relevance of film in our modern culture. His opinions are his own.
