TERRY MOSHER
It’s going to be interesting these next two years with the Republicans controlling Congress and the primary season about to begin for the big presidential election in November of 2016. Things will certainly get riled up, that’s for sure.
I’m already riled up.
Why do we need another Clinton and another Bush in the White House? That is what is going to happen if we don’t watch out. I don’t want Hillary in the White House because she personifies the money class. She has a huge political machine already in place backed by big money. Bush likewise has big money behind him, just of a different color; conservative far right.
I don’t want a man or woman tied to Wall Street and the big conservative money of the Koch brothers fooling around with our freedom from the White House. I want a common man or woman who has a burning fire inside of them to fight for the poor and the middle class and not just pretend to do it while on the campaign trail as Clinton or Bush will do.
It’s time for the majority – poor and the fading middle class – to rise up and use our voting voice to push into office a person who will not just fight for us to get our vote, but will fight for us once we give him or her the vote.
Granted, there aren’t many people in the business of politics like that. Climbing the political ranks has its risk. You can grow warts as you climb. It takes skill and persistence to stay in the political life without comprising your principles. It’s just the way it is. But it can be done if that fire sizzles red hot in your soul (hello Elizabeth Warren).
We should start a grass roots campaign to get Warren to change her mind on running for president. She has all the fire to protect us from the growing plutocrat class – the Clintons the Bushes, the Kochs and all the Big Cigars that blow smoke in our face while changing the rules of society to benefit them and their wealthy followers.
I’m tired of that.
Aren’t you?
Where is the justice for the little man? What happened to us that we can’t in the swirling mix of politics dip in and bring equal justice to those of us who need it the most – no matter the nationality or race?
This is not new news. Special interests have hijacked our government a long time ago. Lobbyists – most of whom are former members of Congress – are paid huge amounts of money to buy our representatives their votes. There is no shame in the Washington D.C. Beltway. Money talks and big money talks loud.
Well, we need to speak loudly and carry a big stick and reclaim our government. If you are so tired of this mumble jumble and refuse to vote you are doing a disservice to yourself and others like you. Always vote and vote always. And vote for justice for all, not just the wealthy.
It’s about time, also, that we do something about our country’s health care system. Like insurance companies that build tall buildings, health outfits are expanding like crazy. Why is that? Because they are making oodles of money from us. The profit margin on routine medical procedures and on the medicines that you and I need is obscene.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a start, but not the real answer. Medical organizations have just upped their costs and are building even taller buildings on the money we give them for sometimes mediocre care.
There is an article in the current Time Magazine that details a couple of doctors in Seattle who have come up with a novel idea – give excellent, personal care for a small monthly fee. Your doctor under this system is there for you. You can call them, talk to them and email them, whenever you need help or answers. Primary doctors, it turns out, are burned out on our current health care system and more and more young kids coming through medical schools are turning away from becoming a primary doctor for the same reason – it’s become an assembly line business. Big HMOs like to have their doctors spend no more than 11 minutes on a patient, and that is after you spend up to a half-hour waiting to see one. You are no more than a number to them. Take a number and be seated, a doctor will be with you in a few hours.
The Seattle doctors actually practice preventive medicine and the data so far suggests that the cost of emergency room service has decreased under their plan. That’s because ERs are now being filled by patients who go there for the slightest abnormal condition, whether it be a cold or a scratch, and under the direct primary care of these Seattle doctors those conditions are taken care of by them for that low monthly fee.
I’m digesting a bit here. My bottom line is that our Congress has deviated from the original purpose of our country – that is equality for all, justice for all. Real justice, not phony justice. Real equality, not phony equality.
We are not equal under laws that have been written by our government representatives who are bought and paid for my lobbyists. There is a pretense, especially on the campaign trail, that we are being taken care of, but that is false. We are not.
If you put the Wolves in charge of the hen house, don’t expect to have plenty of eggs with your morning coffee.
So what are the answers?
Don’t elect people who are falsely tainted with a façade of humbleness and nobleness. People who are too close to big money should not be put in charge of the hen house. We need to exercise our voting rights and make sure when we vote we are putting into office somebody who will do what they say and what they say are words that fit our definition of truly working for the poor and middle class and have no designs on building in the near future a mansion on the hill that will be traversed by a black limousine driven by a chauffeur.
In other words, I can’t think if any career politician who is thin, other than the president. They become, it seems, fat cats.
Or Big Cigars.
Be well pal
Be careful out there.
Have a great day.
You are loved.