08-05-2009, 02:00 AM
Dakota wrote:
JD, your posts are so repetitive in style, content and tone that I really don't bother to read them anymore. They are all about me putting the party ahead of the country, right? OK, we get it. Got something else to say, 1trickpony?
I am only reflecting on what you say. The ideas that you project may seem like good ideas to you, but in the real world, they do not help us out as a country, which is what we need most now. The last 8 years were not stellar for us as a nation yet you and many in your party don't seem to care to change the way of thinking that led us to this point.
It seems to me that you parrot the talking points that do nothing to change what is broken (and yes, things are broken). While I don't accept everything Obama says as gospel, I am sick of the movement in this country that attempts to shout him down at every turn, which you seem to do with most of your postings. In that manner, your party is blatantly hypocritical as they said that doing this with a sitting president was borderline treason (as recently as last year this was the refrain).
Look, I am not thinking that what I am saying will suddenly open your eyes to how I see things, yet I have to clear up the misinformation that you present and must call out your party on what it is supporting, as it seems driven not by forces that are not in the best interest of the American people. These companies don't care about us, only profits, so if you are supporting these ideas, then YES, you are putting these companies before your country.
Take the long view on healthcare; do you think that doing nothing to change the path we are on will make us stronger as a nation? Are we better off pre-Bush or post-Bush as far as healthcare goes? Every year since 2000, the insurance companies have charged a little more than the prior year (my costs are up 100% in those 8 years), yet the coverage says the same or retracts (I know this first hand as I pay ALL of my own coverage out of my pocket yet my copays have gone up and the treatment levels have gone down). What kind of sense does that make to allow healthcare companies to have as their "clients" NOT the patients but their shareholders? The industry is screwing Americans yet your party is siding with the companies that are doing it and siding against the majority of us who wants things to be fixed. If that makes you uncomfortable, good, it should.