It's been a long day. I mean a really long day for me. Up at 3 am with a baby who is teething and didn't want to go back to bed. Up again at 10 am after finally going to bed at 5 am because I couldn't get to sleep right away. And I've been up and running ever since.
I finally got home to stay and rest for the remainder of the day at 8 pm. Ugh. I know, I'm ranting and whining. It's just been such a long day. Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that lately I haven't had many deep thoughts. I mean deep and meaningful thoughts about topics of discussion today and life in general.
So here's what I want to do. I want to think again. Sounds weird, I know. I just want to have those thoughts again. I want to think about things other than what needs to be paid, where I need to go the next day, what needs to be done on this day or next in line for the day, who needs what, what needs to be cleaned, you get the gist.
I've been thinking lately, on the off chance I get to process deep thoughts, about how our country is so far behind in the medical care department. I'm specifically talking about universal healthcare, Obamacare, is what we're calling it now in our country but it is essentially our president''s, Barack Obama, bid to get universal healthcare put into place in our country.
You see, we happen to be the only first world nation that DOES NOT have universal healthcare. Interesting, no? Even a few THIRD WORLD countries have universal healthcare. That's right folks, even Cuba, has universal healthcare. Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and all but a few of the still troubled Balkan states of Europe have universal healthcare. Here's a link to a little interesting tidbit of information on it:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/heres-a-map-of-the-countries-that-provide-universal-health-care-americas-still-not-on-it/259153/
I find it interesting that the main reason we don't have universal healthcare is because our top 1% of rich population that are so damn greedy that they don't want to help out the little people, of which I'm sure they stepped on a few of to get where they are, and congress is so bought out by them because the rich are backing up congressmen and women saying things like, If you keep this healthcare bid under wraps and not let it go through then we'll continue to fund your campaigns, blah blah blah.
It's bullcrap really when you think about it. The only thing holding us back is our own greed. It's what's going to bring this country down to it's knees again just like back in 1929 during the stock market crash which ultimately led to the depression. We're in a depression right now. Have been for the past six years. It's not getting any better. We need to do something. We need to get to back to taking care of our own.
It's not right that we can send millions of dollars overseas to take care of and help out other countries in need when we have so many of our own that need our help. So many homeless and jobless and in need of healthcare and other basic necessities like food and shelter. It's not right that our middle and lower class population have to fight so hard to stay alive and make ends meet only to get screwed over by our own government by increased taxes. The rich stay and get richer while the poor stay and get poorer.
My family and I are at poverty level right now. We're actually, legally, below poverty level. We barely make ends meet. We visit food pantries twice a month. We're on disability for physical and mental ailments, can't work and even if we could, there is no work to be had. Our car is falling apart, our home is falling apart, we're doing everything we can just to stay afloat and it's hard. Really hard but we're doing it. We're doing it to survive, to stay alive, to get by...just to get by.
Well, I'm done for now. It was just a little food for thought today. Hope you enjoy and I really hope it at least makes you think about things going on in today's society. Have fun with that. :)
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