I actually watched Sarah Palin and John McCain at this town hall today on Fox News. I’m glad there’s a YouTube of this guy because I thought he was mad enough to describe how I’ve been feeling lately.
The guy in the Audience is mad and I tell you what… I’m Mad too!
I’m also getting pretty sick and tried of John McCain and Sarah Palin being compared to George Bush. They are nothing like the Bush Administration. George Bush is a bit different as compared to John McCain. They are different guys. Sarah Palin… well… she’s not a guy. She’s a Woman with an 80% approval rating as the governor of her state. She started out as a Hockey Mom and worked her way up. That’s what people do to get through life. Especially those that are not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I have never seen so much hatred spewed by friends against those that are doing well for themselves. Let me ask you something, don’t you like to see people are doing good? Why all the pent up frustration or feelings of hate against some people that happen to have more money than you? So it’s ok to be well off as long as you don’t have to work hard to get there, is that it?
I was taught growing up that if you go to school, study hard, work hard, and go to college and keep trying that you can’t go wrong. I believe that..
A friend of mine doesn’t understand why I’m not for a National Healthcare Plan. I’ve been asked more than once, “didn’t you have government medical care when your Dad was in the Army?” Sure we had military healthcare and you can say that the government provided it for us but it’s not the best healthcare. Another friend and I were talking about what it was like to go to the Dentist as kids who were not kids of officers. We didn’t get the pretty white fillings for our cavities. We got the metal fillings that our Dentists on the economy would frown at. No, government healthcare is not the best way. In fact, I know people in the military that would prefer in many circumstances to see civilian doctors just because. I don’t blame them.
Why should our government be involved in every aspect of our lives? I don’t get it? You’ve seen what has happened on Wall Street. The government felt that we needed to come to the rescue and it’s done nothing but make it worse. It’s not the government’s job to bail out the economy. Those businesses that went under should have never been bailed out. That’s not letting our free market system work. It’s manipulating the system and how can their be any confidence in that as compared to the economies in other parts of the world.?
I’m so sick and tired of people telling me that I’m not in the lower tax bracket and how would I know because people in lower tax brackets have suffered for the last eight years. What tax bracket is that … I’m supposedly in? Am I part of the people that make less than $250,000.00 a year? Is it because my house is bigger than yours OR your house didn’t cost as much as mine? Who really gives a crap so long as you have a roof over your head? I’ve lived in basement apartments. I’ve lived in rooms. I’ve lived in a women’s shelter. I’ve lived in roach infested apartments? So what!? I supposedly don’t understand economics because today we work hard to provide the essentials for our family? Are people not permitted to do good for themselves or do we live in a time where the only thing people can do is covet what their neighbors have?
I have more to write but I’m too disgusted, shocked and hurt right now to keep going…
You have no idea!
I get disgusted by it too! People often talk about what we have here, little do they know that we don’t own this house, we rent it – and at an extremely high cost too! We have no extras, we buy clothes of clearance, we struggle with bills, but by golly we live in this house so we must be doing well. Whatever! What we are doing is providing for the family God gave us and if that means mommy and daddy don’t get new coats this year in order for the kids to have warmer clothes and in order to pay rent then that is damn well what we’re gonna do!
People who cry about tax brackets and who has more or less just piss me off. They fail to look at the bigger picture. They see money as everything and what they don’t look at is the fact that money only gets you so far.
Some people have more and that is fine – if they worked for it and earned it then good for them!
Some people work hard and still have less, that is where my family falls, but you know what – we are alive, we have a place to live, we have shoes on our feet, and we can at least feed ourselves so we don’t complain.
And then there are those who have less and never want to do anything but bitch and moan to get more. Get up! Get a real job! Stop complaining and DO SOMETHING!
Gov’t healthcare? Get a grip! I grew up in a military family and to compare that with a National Healthcare system – obviously someone doesn’t know what they are talking about and it isn’t Angela.
How little money must people make before they are acceptable to others?
It boggles my mind the ridiculous things I have heard and read from people who spew this crap.
You have a right to be disgusted, Anegla! I’m disgusted too!
Just have to comment here, as the daughter of a Colonel in the Army– officer’s kids didn’t get the pretty white fillings either. And neither did the officers themselves. I’m not kidding. I honestly have NO idea why you thought they did. We lived on the same post Angela. We went to the SAME dentists who use the same procedures no matter who the patient is. Believe me, I had a mouth full of those ugly silver fillings. If you actually knew officer’s kids who had the pretty white fillings and saw those white fillings yourself, then I PROMISE you, their parents paid out of pocket at a NON-military dentist.
(And I’m paying the price now– those things FALL OUT! And everytime one falls out, the thinned out, weakened tooth breaks and I have to get a root canal and a crown. Mega money.)
I promise you, officers’ kids didn’t get ANY DIFFERENT treatment from doctors or dentists than unlisteds’ kids. Medical benefits in the military is the same across the board, unlisted, officer, Colonel or E-5, it doesn’t matter. Everyone gets the same treatment and everyone has the same benefits. Whatever gets covered for an officer, gets covered for the unlisted. It’s universal care. It’s not like unlisteds were getting Medicaid and officers were gettting a PPO. Officers didn’t get more benefits, more procedures covered, etc. THat’s not the way the military medical coverage works. Everyone gets the exact same treatment.
Which treatment, by the way, is NOTORIOUS for not being very good care. The ONLY advantage that officers had, was the fact that they made more money and therefore could pay out of pocket for better care OUTSIDE of Champus.
But it was so expensive, that most didn’t.
So to me, the healthcare in the military is the PERFECT example of how yucky healthcare would be under a universal healthcare system.
It WON’T be very good treatment.
Sorry to post again– but think about this.
If healthcare in the military isn’t as good as care on the outside, and the military is only having to cover MILITARY famililes– just think how much WORSE that care would be if it was having to cover EVERYONE.
There’s a REASON why the wealthy from other countries who use universal healthcare come to AMERICA to get their healthcare!
Funny, I was just venting to my friends about ‘military’ healthcare lately and how it is a perfect example why universal healthcare is just not the answer. My husband is a combat veteran who has been pardon me, screwed by the VA since forever. Go visit any VA hospital. Try driving 100 miles, wait 4 – 5 hours past the appointment time just to see a doctor for 2 minutes and drive another 100 miles home.
Aside from that, I come from a country who has universal healthcare. It’s the pits. Nobody wants to be a doctor because doctors are required by law to serve in the government healthcare system for 5-6 years before they can think of private practice or working for any private healthcare system.
Being a civil service doctor pays peanuts, is long hard work too because of the number of patients. If you think doctors here are uncaring and hardened, you should visit these doctors. I don’t blame them in many ways they are burnt out.
As for patients – I’ve been there all my childhood and part of my adult life. You wait for hours and hours in crowded clinics. You get treated horribly because people are overworked, underpaid and government can’t hire more. You also have to schedule appointments months ahead. Not the quality healthcare some make it out to be.
I’m no expert in economic research, but I believe that the government is buying/bailing out the banks in the mortgage crisis in order to save banks in financial distress, but to also save people like us (middle/lower) from paying higher interest rates on our credit cards, car loans, mortgage loans (if you can find a bank to fund one), etc. The crisis has caused banks to stop lending to each other. Money market funds went belly-up due to investors pulling out their cash. So if the government buys the bad mortgages, this will hopefully get the banks to start lending money to one another, this should ease the LIBOR rates which are higher than the Fed Funds. Then people will be able to buy homes and stop the decrease in home values, with more loans available this would also spark consumer purchases. I’m sure there are some bad loans that the government will lose out on, but the government should most likely sell the loans at a higher price than what they paid and not lose the $700b used. Now the bailout is not without flaws…but in the long run I believe it is in the best interest of the country for this bill to pass. Imagine if there is no money to loan from bank to bank – you may one day go to your bank to withdraw cash and discover that your bank doesn’t have funds available. Scary thought, but it could happen! Remember the Great Depression?
In regards to the “Universal/Gov’t Health Care”, I look at it like this…we should give every child under the age of 18 (or up to the age of 23 if a full time college student) free health care. After the age of 18 (and not in school/college) it’s their parents’ or that person’s responsibility to have their own health care. Get a job! Join the military! There should be no reason why an able bodied U.S. Citizen or Naturalized/Green Card holder doesn’t have medical benefits of some sort!
They already do– it’s called Medicaid.
I guess I was talking about the military bases in Germany. Sorry about that Tracy. I should have been a bit more clear about the dental work. Yes, I lived on Fort Hood with you so I’m not sure what the specifications were at that time. My friend Faithe lived her entire life in Germany before her folks came back to the states and I was just sharing what she had explained to me that was true for her. But I do agree with you that universal government healthcare in the military is not all that’s it’s cut out to be. In fact, it was frustrating for our family at times when my Dad was in the military.
Funny thing happened a few years ago. Don and I went back to visit Fort Hood and we drove through the old neighborhood. Housing for the officers were not as different as I thought it to be. Looking back and driving through Comanche 3a, the houses were all the same. Honestly Tracy, I don’t know how we squeezed into those boxes. There were such tiny duplexes. In between Mandan Ct. and the elementary school they filled in all that grass and have more housing. The houses are bigger and newer. Comanche 3 B to me, looked like the hood. The Shoppette is still there but different. There is a church now up on the hill. I’m not sure about the DYA. I seem to recall there was an after school trailer the kids could go to between 3-A and 3-B before they built the new community center. I think now the newer houses are bigger two story single dwellings. Much better than what we lived in as compared to Comanche 3-A. And when we lived on base our neighborhood was the best to live in if you were military. =]
Universal Healthcare won’t work. Government military healthcare is proof enough for me. I lived it, been there done that, and I’ve watched my own family members suffer as a result. Thank God they didn’t sit around and bitch about getting better healthcare. They got up out of their chairs and did something about it.
We were stationed at Rose Barracks in Bad Kreuznach, then further south in Goeppingen outside of Stuttgart. Two different posts, in two different parts of the country. My mother took us to the dentist twice a year all our growing up years. Never in all my life, on any post anywhere in the world did I ever get a white filling. Neither did my O6 father. It’s not a matter of where you live or what rank you are. The benefits are universal for everyone, no matter your rank or where you’re stationed. I have no idea why your friend told you otherwise. Hmmmm…..
I LOVE going back to places I used to live.
I’ve been back to 2– but never to Hood. I’d love to though. Isn’t it funny how you can drive or walk through the neighborhood in your head, even 25 years later?
Yeah– Comanche 3A was definately the nicest housing area. And the enlisted housing in that specific development wasn’t any different than the officers (except for some being 4 bedroom instead of 3. But which you got was determined by family size, not rank.) Where my friend Amy lived was totally different though– big difference between where you and I lived and where she lived. They were more like apartments- brown in color. It was sort of the “hood” of Hood. Was that 2A? I used to walk or ride my bike over to Amy’s. There was a sidewalk path that went behind the Shoppette right outside of 3A, remember that? That path to you over to that other division. There was a creek down there, and little cliffs that lined it. Remember that?
We “squeezed” into our houses because we shared rooms!! Our family never lived anywhere where we each had our own rooms. I always did, but only because I was the only girl with 3 boys. Ft. Hood was the first place Joe had his own room. Aaron and Nick had to share.
Did you ever know the Paxtons? Vicky graduated in 86′ with me, and Norman was a year younger. (You might remember him, everyone called him Norman the Mormon) They had 12 kids!!!! They lived further back off of Biloxi court in a 4 bedroom! The same court that Kelly Finch lived on (remember her? First chair flute?)
The mom and dad had a room, 2 of the rooms had two sets of bunkbeds, and the other had 1 set of bunkbeds and 2 cribs for their twin babies. Talk about “squeezing”!!
I will ask her about it the next time I talk to her and see if I can get her to explain it to me with more details. I don’t think she’ll mind. When you are friends with somebody for years it’s kinda easy to just pick up the phone to ask for clarification. So it’s not a problem and what you’ve shared about it really has me thinking because it makes total sense how you present what you know and compare the two.
Yes! Comanche 2 and even places like Walker Village was horrible. I do remember the sidewalk path that led out from Comanche 3a to the Shoppette. Back before any of that me and Christine use to walk through the trails to get to the Shoppette. We used to go and buy soda, makeup, Twinkies, and teen beat magazines! lol Back then $5.00 got you A LOT! I don’t think I remember the Paxtons but I do recall a Mormon family that lived right next door to me on Mandan Ct. They were nice people. I can’t believe that they crammed all those family members into those tiny houses. But again.. I guess you do what you have to do in order to make it. That is definitely squeezing for sure. I think I forgot that Kelly Finch lived in Comanche. I know I have a photo of her though.. did she always sit first chair or something like that?
When Don and I were first married I moved into Don’s home from my apartment here in Omaha. We lived in a four bedroom split level. The master bedroom was up with another bedroom across the hall. You walked into the front door and could look up into the living room and kitchen and down into the finished basement. In the basement was the fireplace/family room. In the back was the laundry room and two more bedrooms with one of the bedrooms having a sliding glass walk out to the back yard. For awhile that bedroom was Lauren’s and the room across from her was the home office. After Kinsley was born we knew that we were going to have to move. It was getting crowed and we didn’t want Lauren having access to the walk out.
We moved to a two story, partially finished basement that has 4 bedrooms and the laundry room up stairs with a master bath and a full bath in the hallway. Lauren, Kinsley, and Fiona all have their own rooms up. On the main level we have a formal dining that is actually my office (we don’t eat formally) and the formal living room is our family/tv room (we don’t live formally in living rooms) – the family/tv room opens up to our casual living space in front of the fire place. It’s an open concept because from the kitchen you can see the dining room table, etc. In the basement we have all our game consoles and a TV down there. One other bedroom is Don’s office and another bedroom we have used as a toy room/guest bedroom. The rest of the unfinished part is for storage.
We feel very blessed to be in this house but we also worked very hard to find it and to move into it. We know that at any moment we could lose everything because nothing is forever so we take each day as it comes and we try to do right by our kids and work hard. The family that lived in this house before us was Mormon. (I think God is trying to tell me something! lol) I think that they had seven kids with one on the way or something like that.
Socialism isn’t a negative concept at all.
That came around the Reagan era.
Police are socialized.
So are firemen.
And taxes go to pay for roads and schools.
Personally, I don’t want to call the police in an emergency and have them tell me I didn’t pay enough to get help right away.
About healthcare: I’ve never met ANYONE who was dissatisfied with their socialized medicine. Cuba has one of the best systems in the world when it comes to socialized medicine. The cost would come from our taxes, and we’d take care of each other.