UberPocky

I strongly believe that politics has become one of the biggest problems in American Culture. Not only does politics discourage rational thought it promotes slander, anger, discrimination and ignorance. This is the absolute worst of politics. Now the kicker… If you are a Democrat you are now saying to me “No! Democrats are not like that! Republicans are!” If you are Republican you are saying to me “No! Republicans are not like that! Democrats are!” So wouldn’t that raise a red flag? Is it not possible that BOTH sides are right… and also both sides are wrong?

If you can’t consider it from that angle. Please stop reading. You are not ready to take a step into a broader larger world. For those of you who would like to keep and open mind and broaden horizons a little bit please stay with me.

So first and foremost, let’s take the issue of Logical Thought. What defines logical thought? My definition of logical thought would be thought processes that are unclouded by emotion. Generally logical thought is a slow ponderous process of weighing risk and reward. The bigger the problem the longer it takes. Correction, the bigger the problem the longer it should take.

In comparison, there’s Emotional Thought. These are thoughts driven by fear, anger, pity, sadness, desperation, guilt. You can find these types of thoughts in the main reason for each bill congress puts forward these days. Healthcare is a great example. “We the richest country in the world do not cover every one of our citizens with health insurance.” This is a heaven of emotion. Pity for those who don’t have the kind of healthcare you do. Guilt that you have good healthcare and you don’t see why other people shouldn’t because good health is a “human right”. Possible anger that you do not have health insurance and other people do. Desperation that your health insurance may run out and you need to be covered by something soon and you either have pre-existing conditions or cannot afford health insurance.

Decisions made on Emotional Thought usually will not consider all the angles and will not be a complete decision, they may need to be changed or modified shortly after being implemented. They are very frequently crisis. They need to be handled and solved immediately. This leads to rash and incomplete decision making. Even those who have “thought” about it emotionally are incapable of seeing it from certain angles. That is a genetic fact of humans. When you get emotional part of your brain shuts down and you become incapable of seeing the issue from any perspective but your own.

And now, I’d like to continue with the other issues I planned on raising. continue reading…

Healthcare is a tough topic, no doubt about that. And changes have to be made, noone disagrees with that. INCLUING REPUBLICANS. That’s right if anyone cared to watch C-SPAN or C-SPAN2 and inform themselves about the reality of the situation they would see that republicans don’t oppose change… They just oppose massive and needless changes.

And on this topic. I’ll be honest. I agree with Republicans about healthcare (mostly). For those of you that are leftists and don’t have an open mind, and want to get this passed now regardless of the 10-20 year consequences, that’s fine you can stop reading now.

I’m here to talk to everyone that has an open mind and is willing to think and challenge their ‘leaders’. And i’m going to talk about this bill by talking about something everyone knows and should have been to and should have learned from…

I’m going to talk about an experence everyone had.

KINDERGARTEN

Yes, i’m going to try to convince you that this healthcare bill is a bad idea based on what I learned in kindergarten. Healthcare is a massive issue, and there are massive amounts of people in this country that don’t have health insurance (for whatever reason) and can only get healthcare by waiting until it’s a major problem and going to the E.R. (if they don’t have a savings account to pay for it out of). To the majority of Americans that is unacceptable. Myself included.

Another major problem is those that have pre-existing conditions find themselves uninsured. This in my opinion is the largest problem facing our healthcare industry right now.

So all in all, it’s a big problem, a massive problem… In kindergarten, what was the first thing you were taught to do when face a problem? For me it was very simple, break it down into very small problems and take them one at a time, see if they help the situation over time, if not undo them and try something else.

So, why shouldn’t congress do that? Why should it pass a super huge bloated bill that tries to fix everything at the same time. I’m sure some of the things in there will do well, and some clearly will not (everyone admits this). So why even do the things that won’t work!?

Why not just pass 100-200 smaller bills that can be easily undone if they don’t work? Why not fix the topics one at a time? This would be my solution. Fix the problems one at a time, and see where they stand with the populace of this great country of ours. I bet most of the country would support something to put people with pre-existing conditions that have been denied private insurance on medicare or medicaid. I also bet people would oppose the idea of people with pre-existing conditions put into a new bureaucracy to handle “all Americans”.

And that’s how I see this problem. Rip it apart… Make it many smaller problems… Take them one by one. Why can’t the people in Washington take the simple straightforward answer?

The only time I want them to act like children, they refuse to.

So, in short, I oppose some of the things in this bill, but I am also in favor of some of this thing about this bill… However, I think this bill should be defeated because of it’s SIZE…

The U.S. House of Representatives defeated the $700,000,000,000 “economic bailout” yesterday. Which means congress finally listened to the People! The people have been aginst this from the beginning, including almost everyone I’ve talked to. The bill was not quite sure where all the money would go…

Also, all the money was in the hands of one man. The Secretary of the Treasury who was by the wording of the bill required to make sure he assured the economic well being of the Citizens of the United States. Well, I don’t remember that being in the Constitution. I know we are to promote but not assure.

Well anyway. The bill was defeated. So they get to rework it. This is not something that needs rushed. It’s more important that this needs to be done correctly then quickly.

So here’s the vote.

Total: Aye: 205 Nay: 228 No Vote: 1

Democrats: Aye: 140 Nay: 95 No Vote: 0

Republicans: Aye: 65 Nay: 133 No Vote: 1

I just wanted to mention here, they only needed 12 more votes to pass it. They could have gotten that from Democrats alone. If you favor this bill (which I do not) you should be blaming Democrats. They could have, and if they really believed in the bill, should have forced it though. This shows even Democrats who were pushing for the bill the most don’t believe in it…. Just to note also, those 95 Democrats are on financial committees and in highly contested reelection runs.

Thank You Congress, for listening.

P.S. My Rep, Danny Davis, voted for it, so he’s lost some points in my mind for November.

Today is the 7th anniversary of September 11, 2001. I was in English class when it all happened. As I’m sure everyone in the U.S. knows where they were. Every time this anniversary rolls around I think about the people that attacked us. Specifically what they are called “Muslim Extremists”. So Muslims are not the enemy Muslim Extremists are. This is my first conclusion. I know a couple of Muslims and they are very nice people that would never hurt a flea. After reading much of the Koran, I’ve found out taken with a rational mind it can be very encouraging. However, when people take it wrong, it comes out wrong. I.E. September 11th.

So the problem would therefore be the Extremists part of that. People that take their religion too far. People that believe that use the Koran to justify murder. People that are out of touch with our world’s society…

Aren’t there Christians like that too? People that believe that the world is 5,000 years old, and we roamed the world with dinosaurs. People that believe the bible is a perfect historical record of the human race.

And Pagans too? Of course! Interesting, there are extremists in every possible religious group. People that just take religion past the society norm. People that take religion to deny science, or law, or genral humanity.

Wait? Aren’t there Democrats that will instantly say no to any idea a Republican proposes, even if it’s good for the country, just becuase it’s proposed by a Republcian? I would call this Extremism as well! But it goes thee other way. There Republicans that will instantly say no to any idea a Democrat proposes, even if it’s good for the country, just becuase it’s proposed by a Democrat. This is the fundemtal flaw in Washington. And there is no Democrat or Republican that has power that will change it.

Extremism causes a problem with humans. They get suck in their own thoughts and plans and blackbox everything that conflicts. Most, if not all, of the problems of this world would be solved by open minds.

And those who say they have an open mind are least likely to have them…