Big Bird &
co. educate so many kids at the preschool level and beyond, teaching that
learning can be fun if not a joyous experience.
Obamacare is a
landmark and salvation for so many, far from single-payer or public option, but even farther
from the indifference that has cut off more than 40 million people from
insurance. Think of Appalachians receiving medical care for the first time in
their lives, think of availability of coverage for those of us with
pre-existing conditions. Who doesn't have one? Being human is a pre-existing
condition. That hale and hearty youth who pays five cents a month could be struck
by some kind of hazardry that could keep him in the ICU in a coma for the next
five years.
Actuarial
statistics guarantee that he'll be insured anyway, because chances are so slim.
The utterly
obtuse alternative to Obamacare? GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM? A guaranteed tax
increaser, Rom. Who pays? We pay! Why not pay for Obamacare instead? We could
treat dozens at least that way instead of one.
Medicaid cares
for the poorest and most handicapped among us. But those populations are the
least likely to vote, losing more and more power every day.
Maybe Hurricane
Sandy is the wrath born of threatened, further deprivation in this wealthiest
of all Promised Lands. Let's hope the power lines go down and stay down, that
power of the very few sucking out the blood and guts of the many.
Massive flood
alerts threaten beach homes up and down the coast. Think of THE flood that
wiped all but the Noah family and innocent beasts from the face of the earth.
Who owns those
homes if not Rom's people? Oh, well, they'll build others, even if their
designer insurance policies don't cover acts of God.
ACTS OF GOD.
Just as in Haiti,
those in the flimsiest habitats will suffer the most, though.
Is that the best
God can do in this hapless, hopeless twenty-first century?
Place perpetual
storm clouds above the heads of the Kochs and their brothers and sisters.
Waterboard them for a while. Let them visit Haitian lives for an extended
vacation, instead of Nassau or Jamaica.
Is that the
answer? Don't rich people suffer? In very different ways than you or me.
How much education does it take to vote for
deprivation, huge cultural deprivation?
Or, put another
way, why leave culture to those who least understand it? Those fools are
depriving us of our bread and circuses, a huge mistake, among many others they
plan.
As dumb as the
general population may be not to recognize the fox in the henhouse, Rom &
co. are even dumber for exhaling further threats onto the base of
their pyramid.
When it wobbles
enough, we all fall down.
Machination isn't
advanced enough, nor computers, to replace the underclasses yet.
And when it is,
then what? Will there be anyone left smart enough to use them for God's
purposes? Assuming God still wants us around?
Or does flooding
out the East Coast eliminate most of the blue states, serving another purpose?
A red line sent by God to stave off the early voting results that favor Obama?
Or are we live
remains of Godhead dying downward, brain and eye now gone? (pace Thomas Hardy)
With the
monstrous threat of a looming Romney win, we must look up and down and
everywhere, trying to make sense out of the senseless. Surely we've survived
plutocracy before. We survived Baby Bush, who spent more on American humanity
than any president in history.
It's just that
we're up against the thickest concrete wall in U.S. history since FDR rescued
some of us from ruin. A lot of us, actually, just as Obamacare embraces most,
but not all. How destitute must one be to be ignored by this humanitarian act?
Most of the uninsured will be covered.
Actually, does
Hurricane Sandy have anything to do with next week's election?
Yes,
Environmentalists will attribute its clout to global warming, another reason
not to vote for Kochs & co.
Go no more a'Rovin'
with them, my people.
Go no more a'Rovin'
with them.
If there's hope at the bottom of the barrel, it's You-Know-Who. Don't think twice. We far outnumber Them.
( c )
