Originally posted by aravoth
The system that currently exists is the system you are all fighting to save. A corporatist state, that is what you advocate for without even realizing
it.
It is, as someone once said, the battle cry of a mob of looters.
Well, we'll all get to see it pan out, and watch this system crumble to dust.
Sadly the teaparty members are protesting against themselves and fighting to save the existing system that you speak of in a way. While the obama
healthcare package may have been subpar, the chance to provide all Americans with affordable healthcare through taxation doesn't seem like a bad idea
to me. In fact, this is what the rest of the first world and beyond is accustomed to, and while problems do exist, they are far better than the
alternative. Not being able to access healthcare at all. Or accessing healthcare, but losing their home in the process.
I don't know about anyone else, but if a family member was diagnosed with cancer, and on top of that had to deal with the possibility of losing their
home as well because they couldn't afford the high cost of treatment, I'd be a little miffed to say the least.
I don't blame these people for protesting. They are watching their jobs get shipped overseas, they are watching their neighbors lose their homes
after they are foreclosed upon, they are watching as their state government lays off law enforcement agents, and watching as their schools are
permanently shut down.
Meanwhile, those at the top of the pyramid structure continue to rake in the dough, they continue to screw the average American over in the name of
greed, and they continue to influence the policy of the US government. How could they not be angry? I find it hard to believe that there isn't more
than fifteen thousand Americans protesting in the streets right now.
The middle class as well as the poor, continue to receive the short end of the stick over and over and over again, and it is really quite sad to
see.
It is more sad to see the American protesters who are out their attempting to retain the status quo. They are literally protesting against positive
change.
Change that could ensure the average American is given precedence over the corporate precendence that currently exists within the confines of
Washington DC and beyond. These people are being played by the likes of the FOX News Corporation and sadly they cannot even see it. Sarah Palin, Glenn
Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O' Reilly do not give a rats behind about the average American. They are slime helping to
push the corporate agenda, and the "positives of the staus quo" that is currently destroying the middle class of America and widening the gap
between the rich and the poor. Never a good outcome. Never a good outcome at all.
