*Strictly my opinion* Obama is a socialist and I really don't want to live in a communist country.
Have you ever watched a movie called Sicko? Go watch it, then determine if you want socialized medicine in the USA. They already have it in Canada, Britain, France, and the rest of Europe. Those aren't communists, just smarter than we are. They didn't let the drug manufactuters and health care providers decide on who can get health care, we ( the capitalist country controlled by greed, and the almighty dollar ) did. Yes we will have to pay more taxes to cover the cost of socialized medicine, but we won't have to pay socialized (um social, I meant social) security (something that most of us will never benefit from anyway) and HMO medical costs out of every paycheck (and matched by your employer), and we won't have to worry about having the money to pay for the operation we need, or being tossed out of the hospital because we can't pay for the service.
As for the war. The terrorist that were responsible for 911 weren't even from the country we are at war with! The only retaliation we might get is the people we are fighting retaliating because we startied the war with them! The whole war is a huge joke, but I'm not laughing. I personally think the whole thing is just an example of history repeating itself. Ever hear of Pearl Harbor? You think we didn't know the Japanese were going to attack? Those in charge knew, and decided NOT to do anything because the US government needed a reason to help England & France fight against the Germans. We pissed off the Japanese, and then acted surprised when they retaliated. Yes, we made them retaliate. Pearl Harbor was an act of retaliation for the US's heavy handed methods of stopping all trade to and from Japan. We ticked off the Japanese Emporer, and he decided to attack us. We also launched a huge propoganda campaign. "Did you know that the Japanese aren't even human? They are beasts like monkeys. They said so on the radio!" Gotta love the government and the almighty bigot.
Bush needed a reason to go to war. You think he didn't know about the terrorist? You think they couldn't have stopped a plane from crashing into the Pentagon? They let it happen so they would have a reason to go to war. It worked before. It will most likely work again. Bin Laden's family was in the US and we safely escorted them out of the country, after 911. Bin Laden gave young George Bush money to start a business, before he was president and had even eaten dinner in his home.
That should get a few responses.
I support this post.
Especially after working in a federally-funded Health Care for the Homeless Medical / Dental / Eye Clinic as the social worker (and, btw, the Spanish translator), for 7 years.
I lament that folks still "buy the hype" of typical Republican disinformation deliberately spread...Personally I don't think 'share the wealth' is an intrinsically socialist statement, but then again my cousins founded a Moshav in Israel (it's similar to a Kibbutz but more Western) and I view that as a Utopian community. Oh and how 'bout them Dirty Tricks, the juvenile version of Black Ops that Republicans put on every election-- such as the text messages and emails, only sent to known Obama supporters, claiming that the election was Weds. and not Tues.....After 2 consecutive 4-year periods of Dirty Tricks and election fraud leading to falsely imposing the Republican President who now has THE LOWEST APPROVAL RATING IN THE HISTORY OF POLL-TAKING (about 26%), I'm euphoric that we have a real grass-roots leader who was sincerely elected.
Some election fraud movies you should see:
Unprecedented (narrated by Danny Glover)
Stealing America
(in case folks are too young to know: there were such deliberate sabotages of those voting for anyone other than Bush as false disenrollment from the voting registrars, ballots that left off other candidates, machines that incorrectly registered votes, the whole 'dangling chad' issue with paper ballots being tabulated incorrectly....oh and gee no coincidence that the worst infringements were in Florida, governed by, gee, the Pres's own bro, both raised by someone who was the head of the CIA before he was Pres....Not a coincidence that the story about the elections official who slept overnight in a locked room at the polling place with all his county's ballots was in Florida.
Yay for Sarah Silverman (famous Jewish comedienne) whose The Great Schlep targeted Florida.
Oh and btw my dad, who saved lives in operating rooms for 40 years and was due to retire, can't. Why? Because of the Republican deregulation fiasco that is ruining millions of people of most income levels, while still awarding millions to their Wall Street pets who fund their campaigns. He had an IRA with Fannie Mae and Lehman Bros. Oops. Good thing he'd already paid off his mortgage.
Remember that despite claiming to be a 'maverick' so many times that Tina Fey turned it into a drinking game, McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Hell on wheels no way is that being a maverick.
My boyfriend and I had made a pact to move to Canada if Obama didn't win.
Not to mention that the multiple generations of Bushes have damned the earth with vast ecocide that will lead to vast uncountable numbers of deaths of species and of humans by deliberately selling out the truth of global warming to continue their funding from and funding of oil lobbyists and comparably earth-annihilating industries. Of course, if the election had been accurately held, Gore would've been in place, and instead of having to make the only best-selling documentary that wasn't by Michael Moore, could have been saving the earth more directly.
End of rant for now.
BTW I personally canvassed door to door for Obama, 5 days this week, over 22 hrs, over 300 contacts. Kudos to anyone who helped in any way.
