What Is Wrong With You Folks?

 It’s been some time since I’ve decided to post a political blog, for the simple fact that there are many more qualified people here in the ether that are doing a much better job than I could ever hope to do. However, there are a few things I need to get off my chest, thins that I find a bit worrying. It seems as if the entire so-called progressive universe has turned itself on its ear.

 Let me start off by saying that I consider myself a fairly educated individual, and I do my best to stay informed of “news’ of the day. I am aware that the Affordable Care Act roll out has been lest than stellar, and to some extent, there really is no excuse for the shortcomings this very important program has been experiencing, but please people, the sky is not going to fall tomorrow. For example, Microsoft just rolled out it Windows 8 update after several months of previews and beta testing, well, I just spent two days updating a less than one year old laptop with all the whistles, to Windows 8.1 and guess what, it sucked..!!...Two days to update one laptop, however, what I did not do was to toss the baby out with the bathwater. Shit happens.

  The way forward, it seems to me, is to do the work necessary to bring the Affordable Care Act up to its’ potential and not do the work of the right wing for them.  The right wing noise machines are comparing the rollout to Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina, a laughable comparison if I ever saw one. Lets remember that people died in the streets and in their homes whilst Bush and Brown were whistling in dark.

 When we, as progressives take on the same argument as the noise machines, we are cutting off our noses to spite our faces. Give the ACA time to fully reach the people it’s supposed to reach. Republican governors like Scott and Jindal are doing everything in their power to derail this, but no one seems to notice it.

 Lets fix what needs to be fixed, but lets not do the work of the reactionaries, which seems to be hell bent on taking this country back to some nostalgic era that in reality never existed. The idea that access to proper health is affordable to only the wealthiest

flies in the face of logic; the healthier the populace, the more productive we all become.

 It is beyond callous to think that a family needs to make a choice of tending to a sick child or paying the rent, choosing between medicine or food, between seeking care and being crushed by a hospital bill.

 A healthy population is in the best interests of the country, just ask Sweden, Switzerland, or hell, just ask France.

 and so it goes.