Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I don’t think there is a single issue in the United States right now that is getting as much focus as the health care debate.
It seems the central focus of this debate has been whether or not the US is willing to accept “socialism” in it’s health care system (or Nazism, depending on who you ask). As I listen to, read and watch all the commentators who keep throwing around the word Socialism trying to drum up Cold War sentiments and scare people into thinking the US is on a march to the Soviet Union I am constantly reminded of something from George W. Bush Regarding SCHIP. I cannot find the direct quote, but as I remember it was “passing SCHIP will bring us one step closer to Socialized Health care” (source).
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Recently there has been a tremendous amount of debate within the US regarding a wide range of subject; health care, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and economic recovery. These debates are far too complicated for any one person to take head on, however I think it is important to the debate to have an honest look at how the United States compares with other countries in the world.
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I was hoping to write a post for May Day, which is synonymous in many countries as International Worker’s Day as a day to celebrate the gains of international labor movement.
There were the annual Immigrants Rights protests across the US, which were much smaller in southern LA this year (down to thousands from millions) after the brutal police crackdown last year.
Dockworkers on the west coast took the day off to protest the Iraq war by shutting down much of the port traffic coming from Asia.
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There are few more contemptible actions than that of an elected official subverting the democratic process by way of racist nationalistic propaganda.
On March 8th in Spencer, Iowa Iowa Representative Steven King made his irrational fear known, the terrorists love Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Mr. King is convinced that if Barack HUSSEIN Obama were to become president, that the terrorists “will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11,” because he supports an end to the occupation unconditional surrender. He is also deeply concerned that “they” will find solidarity within his middle name, HUSSEIN, as well as his father’s Kenyan nationality (for what it’s worth, Kenya is 10% Muslim, 45% Protestant, and 35% Catholic).
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Last night I watched the 2007 Academy Award winning documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side” about the abuse of detainees in the war on terror, specifically told through the story of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver who was captured on March 10th 2002 in Afgahnistan and sent to Bagram (a US base and detention center) in Afghanistan.It’s an angering and shameful film to watch, it’s really surreal that this is happening in the name of American interests. It is not hard to understand why we are so hated when we graze the occupied country for “terrorists” (which really means men of “fighting age”) and abuse them horribly in secret prisons for years. One statistic quoted in the movie is that some 93% of detainees are captured by Afgahn militias on the payroll of US forces meaning that only 7% are actually captured by US forces.
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