I've been awfully lazy...

I haven't done much... if any... blogging lately, apologies, been too caught up in finishing off school for the year.

Just thought I'd stop by and express my anger at both the American public, and Glenn Beck.

This guy..

Yeah... this guy

And his best friend...

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid and gullible some people can be, if you can willingly believe such fear-mongering and then protest against it. Protesting with miss-informed views and idiotic slogans that are perhaps so badly thought out or justified it brings me to tears.

Sure, thats why freedom of speech exists, people are allowed to beleive whatever they want to believe and they can say what they want to say, regardless of how stupid, bigoted and ignorant it may be. Its when people try and enforce these views on others that it becomes ridiculous.

Now, before I get started ranting, I just want to clarify its not the general American public that I'm angry with, i'm only angry with that small percentage that lives in Texas/Kansas/Alabama/South Carolina etc that have yet to discover fire OR the wheel. These small section of America that is home to some of the most ignorant people on the planet.

I've been doing my best to keep aware of the events concerning Obama-Care and the response to it and its starting to send me a little bit loopy. Lets clarify a few salient issues.

1. No its not fascist
2. Obama is not Hitler
3. Obama is not Russian
4. Tsar does NOT imply that Russia is now ruling America
5. Just because its equal to all does not mean its Communist
6. Just because its fair does not make it Socialist
7. It does not mandate the execution of old people
8. You do not talk about Fight Club



The simple fact is that you people are believing in lies and slander, you're listening to people with little actual knowledge or experience in the field comment on issues they don't understand, and you're believing them, and it honestly disgusts me. This libel would pale in comparision to the honest truth yet you refuse to see it, there is a purpose, a good purpose, behind the current actions of the American Government yet you people refuse to see it. You're like a blind man that hs been cured, yet refuses to open his eyes.

So what if the world is changing? You honestly think the status quo can stay the same for the entirity of your lives?

I hope you enjoy living in the dark ages learning your Glenn Beck spouted rubbish as dogma to teach your children.


Oh, and if you're curious.. Yes round wheels are better than square ones, I'm sure you would have realised eventually...

Just an addendum..

Further to the below post:

World Health Organisation (WHO) 

Ranking of best to worst health care systems globally.

1         France

2         Italy

3         San Marino 

4         Andorra

5         Malta 

6         Singapore

7         Spain 

8         Oman

9         Austria 

10       Japan

...

30        Canada 
31        Finland 
32        Australia 
33        Chile 
34        Denmark 
35        Dominica 
36        Costa Rica 
37        United States of America

Just saying, you're being beaten by Oman, Singapore, Malta, Andorra and Costa Rica

Of the above five, four are in the "developing world" / "third world"

Obama Care.... fascist?

No, of course it isn't, but thats beside the point.

Ever since Obama was inagurated and first occupied the Oval Office his leadership has been fraught with various conservative, Republican or deep southern controversy. If it wasn't about his birth, it was about his policies.

The purpose of the creation of a state based health system is to bring the insanely expensive and time-consuming current health system in America in to line with the systems in other Western countries like Australia and Canada. In fact the American system of health is so horrendous you can get cheaper, better health care in Cuba, or Venezuela.

The simple fact is that the current system is in-ordinantly expensive and slow and compared to systems in countries with far less robust economys, disgustingly ineffective.

To take an example, I'm currently a resident of Australia, we have a state based health-care system known as Medicare, you can join the Ambulance Association for a minor fee each year you can completely avoid paying ambulance travel fees, when I was seriously injured in 2004 during a skiing accident and was airlifted back to Melbourne to undergo CT scans of my upper spine and neck the fee would have been in excess of $5000, yet because of my membership in the Ambulance Association and my public health care, not only did I not pay for the transport I also was re-imbursed for the following medical treatment for the damage to my body.

Compare this to my experience in America a year earlier, I broke my leg in a skiiing accident in Beaver Creek, Colorado. I was picked up by Ski Patrol, loaded into an ambulance and taken to the medical center. My leg was set and two xrays were taken to determine it was set correctly before i was discharged with some pain-killers.
Total cost?
In excess of $8000, which luckily was covered by my travel insurance, althought they no longer agree to cover me overseas >.<

If either of the above stories were to occur to an American citizen on American soil who had no private health care, they would have to pay the costs immediatly, and if surgury was required but was not urgent, they would have to pay up-front.

This is why Obama wants and needs to fix the US health care system, this isn't a socialist/nazi/communist plan. Although it has some socialist influence it is not a bad thing, infact it is a very good thing, socialised health-care works as demonstrated in far less capable nations around the globe.

And for those arguing that the government cannot compete with private business, again look at your fellow democratic and capitalist nations to see it in action. In Australia the government ran telecommunications for decades, it also runs our train and tram systems. Not only do these organisations run as government bodies, or had untill being privatised, they were very competitve with private business, and greatly encouraged market growth and the lowering of prices in general.

Without a doubt Obamacare has very little wrong with it, if you are idiotic enough to listen to the conservative and Republican propoganda about its supposed "Nazism" then I guess I have only one response for you.

To quote Congressman Barney Frank "Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table."


Until next time,
Jesse

The road to power...

Is slick with the blood of those who came before.

Personal philosophy of mine, hooray?

This is just an establishment post, I'll get to blogging properly later.