Screw you

[The Straight Story]

You say you want a strong military to keep us from dying at the hands of others.

You tell me time and again to give up a good chunk of my pay so that we can bail out corporations, buy weapons, aid foreign governments, and give bizarre tax breaks to people who can afford to understand them because they have enough money to hire accountants to understand them.

You want ME to do all this and more and yet you won't even consider a freaking health care plan for everyone? You have it for yourselves, the people we employ in the government have it (at our expense).

You want ME and people like me to give more and more for our 'safety' and to 'protect' us when YOU are not willing to even give and INCH to protect us from what is really harming us day in and out?

Health and Mental care. Medicine. The things we need THE MOST and you want it left up to private industry and clinics.

You spend about a Trillion on a war against a country that had no means to harm us, all in the name of 'protecting' us from harm, and yet you won't do what needs to be done to really protect us.

Screw you.

All of you politicians who see this war as something you need to keep funding. All of you politicians who cower and worry about how others will see you.

Take a damned stand for once, for us people here who pay your salaries and your health care.

We are so mired in what He said/She said, bush, etc that we are letting them slide on the real issues now. They won. We lost.

If the only way we think we can win is to be like those we fight against, then we have lost already.

Iraq was not a threat. They had no WMD. But people ARE dying here everyday from lack of good health care.

They don't really care about YOU.

And THAT my friends is a damned scary thing.

Screw you if you think funding the Iraq 'war' is a good thing while letting people here die because you are afraid to make a stand on health care.

You are not a friend of the people here if you are for funding this war and not ensuring we all have readily accessible health care. I don't care what letter you have after your name.

[Quantess]

1. Great rant!

I feel the same way. Many, many Americans are angry right along with you.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Righteous rant, TSS!

And you are absolutely right!

[rusty quoin]

3. Screw You. You bet. My language might be stronger, but this is good.

[Subdivisions]

4. Amen my brother. n/t

[cbayer]

5. I knew from the title this would be good.

I had my husband read it out loud. It was great. You speak in a voice that many of us understand.

:toast:

[FirstLight]

6. Kick and rec

Again, you have hit the nail squarely on it's head...

and if I may be so presumptios to add that poverty, food, fuel, environment and the rest of the top 100 list can also be interjected into this rant, too. I am so sickened by the illegal and immoral acts being conducted in my name. I don't want the guilt by association of being a part of "their" corporate Amerika. Damn skippy! We could be so much more as a people, if we weren't being subjected to this indentured servitude and fascism. I miss being free, or at least believing that I had freedoms...and I miss believing that we were the good guys.

Thanks for the rant, Straight Story...I can always count on you for summing it up concisely and with passion!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. F'n eh!

K & R

[annabanana]

8. Hell yes. How many people are stuck in miserable

jobs or abusive marriages for the sake of the medical coverage? HOw many people suffer pain every day because they can't afford the kind of care they need?

THEY OWE US BIG TIME

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. K&R

For damn sure TSS.

There's little left for them to take, and there's no solace in that at all.

:patriot:

[Mz Pip]

10. How many people have died

because they have inadequate health care, no health care, been denied health care due to a pre-existing condition.

9/11 changed everything they said. Uh, no, it didn't. People are still dying because of failed health care policies because people are led to believe we have to spend billions to keep us safe from the terrorists.

You said it well. Bookmarking for future reference.

[midnight]

11. Take a stand.... Pay for medical treatment, not war.

Bring them home-Now!!!!

[KSinTX]

12. Don't forget the billions on infrastructure

IN IRAQ, not here at home.