The problem with proponents of ObamaCare was evident yesterday at the Raleigh Counter-Protest Rally… those who support ObamaCare don’t know what they are actually supporting. They put all of their hopes and fairy-tale dreams into some idea of easy, free, “universal” health coverage where medicine tastes like lollipops and doctors are at your beck and call… where you never have to sit in the waiting room, and even your botox injection is free.
This is the same problem America encountered during the election. Few understood what the election of Barack Obama really meant or what he stood for, so they put all of their hopes and dreams on him, and filled him with their fantasies. They didn’t vote for Barack Obama, they voted for what they wanted Barack Obama to be. Voters actually believed they wouldn’t have to pay their mortgage or to fill up their tanks if Obama was elected. They believed foreclosures would instantly stop and jobs would miraculously appear from overseas. As if overnight our streets would be re-paved in gold and money trees would grow alongside the Candy Cane Forest and Lollipop Woods.
Is this the problem with the sound byte mentality and ratings-driven media? Are most Americans nothing more than Lemmings who fall in line with the crowd and jump off the proverbial Brooklyn bridge because the cool kids told them to? Are we so desirous of seeing Barack Obama win that we don’t care what it costs or what future will remain?
It is quite clear politicians don’t read bills anymore, is that too just a symptom of this fantasy culture? In a world full of fake “reality-tv” does “reality” not mean as much as our misguided “hope”?
One only has to look at Canada, France, England or a host of other nation’s to see what the results of Government Health Care will actually be. Long lines, limited doctors, rationed care, and some bean-counter deciding whether you live or die does not meet my standard of health care utopia. I imagine it doesn’t meet many other Americans’ either. But they are too busy believing in a fairy-tale dream to wake up and see what’s really on the horizon.
One of the ladies protesting on behalf of MoveOn.org in Raleigh yesterday had a large red sign that said only “Yes We Can!” I suppose to her it doesn’t matter what the issue is… Obama said its good, so like a Lemming off a cliff, she shows up with her sign ready to take a stand. Yes We Can…. What? Yes we can wait six months or longer for care? Yes we can let the government tell us what prescriptions we can take? Yes we can let some bureaucrat decide if Mom or Dad deserve life-saving surgery, or if they should just die with dignity. Yes we can take patient’s choice off the table and let the government control our daily lives? Yes we can sit on our butts and let everyone else pay for us?
What happened to “Yes I Can”? Yes, I can get involved in the political process and actually learn what a politician stands for and what their plans will actually mean to me. Yes I can read the bill and know what it says BEFORE I vote on it. Yes, I can appreciate the purpose of this country’s founding and its Constitution. Yes, I can raise my children with values and personal responsibility. Yes, I can work hard for my family. Yes, I can make my own decisions. Yes, I can take care of myself.
But this is ObamaLand. Like “universal health care”, “Yes we can” doesn’t mean what they think it means. In reality, “Yes we can” really means yes government can, yes someone else can pay for it, and yes I don’t have to take responsibility for myself.
Eventually, even in ObamaLand, everyone will have to wake up. And when they do, I promise the street won’t be paved in gold and the money trees and Candy Cane Forest won’t be here. The only thing we’ll have are long lines, less care, and lots and lots of debt.
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