A Gentleman’s view.

A start over, new look, incremental lock step approach doesn’t amuse the President when it comes to getting health care done.

I know many people have either heard of or at least seen the movie: “ The Stepford Wives”, done twice in 1975 and 2004 originally written by Ira Levin. This is a story about a town where somehow the male of the species obtained control of a locked gate community or city and the women therein, namely their wives. All of the women dress in the same fashion as though time stood still in ’55 or somewhere in there. They all have stupid looking grins on their faces and address all men in robotic automated vernacular. Women’s total subservience to men in general and related family men in particular is the theme of the day and the locked gate community so to speak.  For the men of Stepford, satisfaction was priority one above all else including personal safety, really weird. Scared me watching a group of people, mostly men, almost all white, financially well off individuals, if not personally. The pay of the offices they hold either currently as rookies or even more so if they’ve held the office for two terms or more is quite substantial in comparison to the average worker. More so during these troublesome economic times, they can refuse to consider that there are many people out here without the protections or perks they take for granted everyday. Not just the opposition party’s constituents back at home in the districts they are sent to Congress to represent all across America, but those constituents of their own Republican Party. Members who statistics state have to be suffering financial ruin from rising health costs or devastating catastrophic illness as well and say to them, lets start from scratch.  This isn’t a Democratic or Republican thing.

The most base and traitorous hypocrisy of the Republic Party has always been the well developed perception that they really give a damn about the common blue collar working man or his family. That they believe in public service for societal good. The people who serve like teachers, doctors, nurses, cops, firefighters, telephone repairmen, postmen and construction workers, plumbers and pipefitters. Republicans are Wall Street, Business, Money, Finance, CEO’s, Big Deals, Bottom Lines, and Lowering Costs. Deregulation is their mantras, less government intrusion, best support for anti-consumer protection, stop the unions, no minimum wages. These guys are Harvard Business School, Columbia Law, Yale Business and Law, Harvard Law and MIT. The are the moneyed minded, pro-business supported individuals who come to Washington to make even more money, and finagle laws to protect and enable future endeavors in a like manner. Yet they have sold the “hard working, blue color white American on the notion they really represent them, sadly it has worked to date. They have convinced them they are on their side; they support the military, are more patriotic than the Democrats and better at policing up the least principled operating members of our society. They somehow miss the connection between the Republican mantra of less government, more deregulation and the impact of downsizing on the Wall Street Bottom Line. Most of the time it is these same people who allow business the freedoms that cause the damages the “free market” was allowed to bear!

Yet intelligent men and women of the Republican Party knowing their policies have caused this damage to so many people and they continued their robotic march off the political cliff by saying “Up Yours!” to more than 30 million Americans without health insurance coverage. They are always campaigning and holding town hall meetings for this demographic group and working up into frenzy about the total destruction of our country as we’ve come to know it. And I suspect more than 100 million when you include the number of people with less insurance than they really need, and it at least doubles if you add those using emergency rooms and free clinics as their only access to the wonderful medical machine we have. One of them made an issue of pointing out how Heads of State of other countries come here to use our medical system but leaves out the fact they have the resources to cover the expense.  But what caused me great concern was the almost robotic lock-step list of talking points by the Republican Party.  ‘We need to start with a clean sheet of paper’ ‘We should just start from a clean slate’ We need to scrap both the House and the Senate plan already passed and in a bi-partisan manner, discuss how to begin to find a way to address a problem we know both parties agree needs to be looked at’ so, ‘Lets convene a committee here in Congress to investigate the need for a commission to study the problems that exist for many Americans with limited means’ lacking the ability to obtain adequate care. Lets continue down this treasonous road to the point of destroying this beautiful country by letting the insurance industry continue to destroy America for the good of personal financial gain and the continued growth of the bottom lines of the few for the increased misery of the many. Why? Because that is what the true free market will bear!

The President convened this summit with the cameras running in order to let the public see for themselves what they had been experiencing from the Republican Party all of last year while negotiating getting any legislation passed in the Senate and the House. He patiently addressed over and over again the need to step away from the Party Rhetoric and suggested things be picked in the already passed legislation they could live with or start from, to no avail. It was a definite statement of you guys have the majority, you are running the show and are going to do what you want to do anyway through reconciliation, so don’t let us hold you up. Just let us make this perfectly clear, we are not going to assist in this and we think we are right, so there! We will continue to let people suffer not being able to get the care needed in time, or coverage being turned down for pre=existing conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, Sickle Cell Anemia, Asthma or Obesity, Cerebral Palsy Multiple Sclerosis or any other debilitating diseases that have been know to inflict man starting with conception. It matters not to us if you have to wait through another election cycle and maybe then we will still not take up the issue for the insurance companies are not interested in any concept where a government agency might establish basic rights and privileges one should have as a American citizen and their health, it is not good for old fashioned American profit to the point of greed that this be allowed to change. And the Republicans are saying; treasonous or not, traitorous or not, it is more important for us to hold this line as a Party principle for all those little guys we have lied to and convinced we have their interest at heart when we support policy in Washington, as we accept the financing of big business to hold onto our “elected” offices. The Stepford locked step, let’s start over Republican Party is saying “Tough Shit” to America!

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