National Health Care and The Domino Effect
Hello, everybody!
I hope your St. Paddy's Day was a success, as mine was, although it almost wasn't! On St. Patrick's morning, just before going to school, I looked in our kitchen cabinet and found out that we were out of canned corned beef! Lucky for me, there's a supermarket not too far from where I go to school, so my brother and I went there before going home to get some, along with a few other things that we needed. Our Working Mother's Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner went off without a hitch, and my folks were never the wiser, thank goodness!
So, today's the big day, isn't it? It's the day we as Americans have all been waiting for! That's right! Today is the day Congress finally votes on the Health Care Bill, and the day we find out whether we all get our national health care, or (heavens forbid!) not. I, for one, hope we all get it! Come on, people! The rest of the world each have their own national health plan, and it's time that we have ours as well! Don't you even think that the rest of the world is looking at us and marveling at how selfish and uncaring we are as a country that we don't even think enough about each other to see that we all have decent and adequate health care for everyone! As a matter of fact, I think that we should have gotten national health care a long time ago! If we had it, say, about thirty or forty years ago, this country wouldn't have been in the very messed up state that it's in today!
Think about it. If we had health care back then, the factories wouldn't have shut down, because the health care premium expenses wouldn't have nearly bankrupted the companies that owned the factories, resulting in their moving to states that don't even believe in unions, let alone workers having health care plans, and which, ultimately, ended up moving to countries that pay their workers pennies on the dollar a day for the same thing that even non-union workers were doing for up to 20 dollars an hour! And, if the factories wouldn't have shut down, the stores and the malls wouldn't have started closing, because nobody had the money to shop there anymore, because nobody had any descent, middle-class factory jobs that paid them a descent wage. And, if the stores wouldn't have closed down, the hospitals wouldn't have shut down, because the people with no jobs and, therefore, no health care plans, wouldn't have gone to the emergency rooms instead of their own private doctors and overwhelmed the system with people who couldn't pay for their emergency room stays. And, if the hospitals wouldn't have shut down, the schools wouldn't have shut down, because the kids and young adults wouldn't have thought that, since they're no meaningful jobs around anymore, "why should I waste my time leaning something to get a good paying job?" See the domino effect here, people? If he had national health care, the factories would still be open, the stores would still be open, the hospitals would still be open, and the schools would still be open. Think about it.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to give to the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
I hope your St. Paddy's Day was a success, as mine was, although it almost wasn't! On St. Patrick's morning, just before going to school, I looked in our kitchen cabinet and found out that we were out of canned corned beef! Lucky for me, there's a supermarket not too far from where I go to school, so my brother and I went there before going home to get some, along with a few other things that we needed. Our Working Mother's Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner went off without a hitch, and my folks were never the wiser, thank goodness!
So, today's the big day, isn't it? It's the day we as Americans have all been waiting for! That's right! Today is the day Congress finally votes on the Health Care Bill, and the day we find out whether we all get our national health care, or (heavens forbid!) not. I, for one, hope we all get it! Come on, people! The rest of the world each have their own national health plan, and it's time that we have ours as well! Don't you even think that the rest of the world is looking at us and marveling at how selfish and uncaring we are as a country that we don't even think enough about each other to see that we all have decent and adequate health care for everyone! As a matter of fact, I think that we should have gotten national health care a long time ago! If we had it, say, about thirty or forty years ago, this country wouldn't have been in the very messed up state that it's in today!
Think about it. If we had health care back then, the factories wouldn't have shut down, because the health care premium expenses wouldn't have nearly bankrupted the companies that owned the factories, resulting in their moving to states that don't even believe in unions, let alone workers having health care plans, and which, ultimately, ended up moving to countries that pay their workers pennies on the dollar a day for the same thing that even non-union workers were doing for up to 20 dollars an hour! And, if the factories wouldn't have shut down, the stores and the malls wouldn't have started closing, because nobody had the money to shop there anymore, because nobody had any descent, middle-class factory jobs that paid them a descent wage. And, if the stores wouldn't have closed down, the hospitals wouldn't have shut down, because the people with no jobs and, therefore, no health care plans, wouldn't have gone to the emergency rooms instead of their own private doctors and overwhelmed the system with people who couldn't pay for their emergency room stays. And, if the hospitals wouldn't have shut down, the schools wouldn't have shut down, because the kids and young adults wouldn't have thought that, since they're no meaningful jobs around anymore, "why should I waste my time leaning something to get a good paying job?" See the domino effect here, people? If he had national health care, the factories would still be open, the stores would still be open, the hospitals would still be open, and the schools would still be open. Think about it.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget to give to the earthquake victims!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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