Skip to main content

The results are in!

And they're not encouraging, at least not from my stand point.

Of 40 votes cast (which is another disappointment), in the poll I posted on October 20, 2006, 25 people believe health care should be treated as a commodity, and only distributed to those who can pay.

The results would be even more disheartening, if I truly thought they were representative of US society as a whole. I don't believe that to be the case.

I refuse to accept that anyone, with the exception of maybe Rush Limbaugh, who thinks Michael J. Fox is faking his disease, and maybe a few others, has so little compassion for their fellow man, and is so self centered, they would put health care on the same plain as purchasing a car.

Of course when you combine this with the fact that daylight savings time is over, and winter is upon us, the Steelers lost to the Oakland Raiders, and Mercury is in retrograde, it can be a little discouraging!

Labels

Labels:

Comments

John Wagner said…
Any possibility of "ballot stuffing?" I find it hard to believe also. I guess the majority of your readers believe in survival of the richest. Sad.
2:37 AM
Marc said…
No, I refuse to accept the possibility of ballot stuffing. Not even the lowest of low would stoop to stuffing the ballot box, on such an inconsequential blog as mine. :)

From what I've seen, most people who frequent blogs a lot tend to lean toward the conservative side on issues, and promote the philosophy that everyone should take responsibility for their own actions.

As if we had any control over our illnesses.

(The more socially conscience among us tend to have better things to do with their time.)

They also think that everyone in the country could pay for their own health care, if they just worked hard, and didn't waste all their paying for food, rent and cars to get to work.

Somehow they just forgot about the concept that for every winner, there has to be a loser.

I guess in this case, the socially conscious lost!
10:46 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

History IS repeating itself

I didn't grow up during the rise and fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany, so for me to claim it feels like those are the times we are living in now, must be taken with a grain of salt. But I have seen enough movies, and read enough history to know, if the times we're living in now are not akin to the rise of a Nazism and Facism in Europe in the 1930's and 1940's, then we're not far off. If you can't see the parallels with Nazi Germany, then you must be living in a different country than me. Republicans and other right wing extremists will stop at nothing to subvert the will of the majority, forcing their beliefs, that they are the superior race and have been appointed by God, to impose their will on America, while they blame all our problems on immigrants, blacks and Jews. As I speak, Mitch McConnell, and his minions are raising roadblocks to all legislation designed to help average Americans under the guise of fiscal responsibility. They condone violent and verba...
Post a Comment
Read more

Vaccine Mandates, what are they good for?

Not much, that's for sure! Simply showing evidence of receiving a Covid-19 vaccine (whether fake or not), does not mean you are protected from getting Covid-19, nor spreading it, if infected. We are all different, and too many of us, i.e. people who are immunocompromised/ immunosupressed, the elderly, or others for various reasons, do not [cannot] mount an immune response as good as younger and healthier individuals. What is evidence of immunity is a quantitative antibody test showing you have developed antibodies, and to what degree, either from natural immunity or the vaccine.  That is what we should be testing for. That is what is important. But for too long, many, i.e. the FDA, doctors, and other health experts discouraged people (and still are) from getting antibody tests, because there was little knowledge about what level of antibodies are needed to impart immunity to the virus. That of course is true, to some extent, but how can we ever find out [learn] the a...
Post a Comment
Read more

Open letter to all Democrats

Stop the nonsense! Continuing to go after Trump, without any hope of getting a conviction, does nothing more than provide Republicans with an obstructionist dialogue (now that they have come up with the unconstitutional talking point) in addition to giving Trump much needed publicity, when we should be ignoring him. It's the pure definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result! Instead Democrats need to be laser focused on what is important to all Americans, i.e. healthcare, Social Security and Medicare, infrastructure reform, the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, to name just a few. And when you do talk about Trump, simply steer the conversation as to how the Trump administration botched everything, how Trump is responsible for the deaths of 400,000+ Americans, due to his inaction and the down playing of the pandemic, plus the deaths of 2 Capitol policeman during the insurrection Trump provoked and incited on January 6, 2021. ...
Post a Comment
Read more