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| Some pages from the Republican health care bill |
“Under President
Trump, our country is moving in an authoritarian direction and the very nature
of American Democracy is under attack.” – Sen. Bernie Sanders
And so, anxiously we wait
for a yay or nay vote on the Republican healthcare bill, the latest
manifestation of the acute degradation, rapid decline and possible lengthy,
languid, painful demise of our nation. While not actively killing the
disabled, the poor and the elderly with their new legislation, the GOP has made
it quite clear that there will certainly be no distressed or unsettled hours of
slumber among their membership when the inevitable, if not planned on, tally of
needlessly lost lives commences, once this massive redistribution of wealth
upward, this socialism for the 1% is law. Now, in the name of fairness and
impartiality, it’s important to note that there is a diminutive gaggle of
Republicans against the bill, including Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, but,
unfortunately, they actually find it not sufficiently draconian, and fear it will
result in too few deaths of innocent Americans.
This is the sorrowful saga of modern America, Trump’s
America, a bilious and bogus United States of America, an America in name only
– a cruel country where the rich eat the poor and the middle class cheer them
on; where the disabled are left to fend for themselves and their infirmities
are regarded as faults for which they are to be punished; where young black man are used as target
practice for law enforcement throughout the land and for whom justice is just
an ugly joke and an unattainable goal; where women and even young girls are sexually
abused while their admitted assailants remain free to scale the supreme summits
of wealth, power and popularity - an America where value, worth and legitimacy
of citizenship is determined by stock portfolio, pigmentation, gender and druthers in deities.
“Health is not a
consumer good, but rather a universal right, and therefore access to health care
services cannot be a privilege.” – Pope Frances
In the United States of America, our overly-proud population
persistently preens and praises itself to the point of pomposity, exasperation
and non-stop annoyance with unproven proclamations of superiority over all of
the other 195 nations on the globe (despite being one of only three happy to
observe idly as man-made climate change renders the Earth unlivable for those
who will follow us and suffer for our severe selfishness and stupidity.) But
ask any Independence Day reveler and they will exuberantly exclaim, that the
U.S of A is the greatest country in the world, never mind the xenophobic
reality that 64% of Americans have never strayed beyond our amber-waved fields
or purple mountain majesties to even have the slightest hint of what may exist
beyond our heavily AR-15’d confines.
I
haven’t a clue what the criteria would consist of to determine a deserving number
one nation ranking, presumably a dance competition is involved, perhaps wrist
wrestling, but if the test entails compassion, empathy, selflessness or
tolerance, if concern for the wellness and healthcare of our citizens is a
barometer, not even George M. Cohan would sing our praises. In every other industrialized, civilized nation, healthcare
is a birthright, not a luxury only the moneyed are entitled to. Medicaid, the
lifeline for the most vulnerable among us, is being savaged with an 800 billion
dollar cut. Medicaid saves children, the elderly, the disabled, the homebound, the
hungry, the poor, those in nursing and other health facilities. Medicaid saves
lives. Medicaid doesn’t save rich people money, so it must be severely cut.
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| America 2017 - police forcefully remove peaceful disabled protestors from their wheelchairs |
What
the GOP, Trump and his supporters have done to this once great country is
tragic. We have become a cruel, ugly, heartless, hateful nation, one in which
those that have the most, viciously prey on those that have the least. Our situation
is grave and growing grimmer. If Trump
is not removed from office, notwithstanding all of his verifiable and even
openly admitted to illegalities, if our unique system of checks and balances, our separation of powers, fails us, and he and the Republicans continue stepping on the vulnerable to
benefit the wealthy and powerful, what are our options as a people and a
country? This is not the United States of America. And this is not a country
that we can leave to our children.
Got a revolution
(got to revolution)
Hey, come on now
we're marching to the sea
Got a revolution (got
to revolution)
Who will take it
from you, we will and who are we?
Well, we are
volunteers of America (volunteers of America)
Volunteers of
America (volunteers of America)
I've got a
revolution
Got a revolution”
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