July 29, 2009 Posted by mitch |
media |
Ok... so, admittedly I don't watch the Bill O'Reilly Show because I honestly can't stand it... he says things all the time that just make me go "WTF!?!?" (look it up).
Anyway, his latest moment:
Letter:
"Has anyone noted that life expectancy in Canada under our Health Care System is higher than in the USA?" - Peter Gillies - Victoria Canada
Bill O:
"Thats to be expected Peter, because we have 10 times as many people as you do. That translates to 10x as many accidents, crimes down the line"
Uhmm I don't think Bill O knows math at all... while we would have more by Number. Life expectancy is an average, thus things such as those get averaged out, and our life expectancy should be *THE SAME OR GREATER*. By Bill O's logic... China, India... should live to be what? <2?!?!
bravo, and I'm sure his audience didn't think twice at such a remark... what a re-tard.
July 15, 2009 Posted by mitch |
thoughts |
So, the News Media... especially the prominent neo-cons O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush, and Beck.... I'm not sure what their pushing... or really what their problem is... I mean I haven't been paying attention to the news for that long really... only maybe 3-4 years... Before that, I probably would have voted for Bush the first time..... and maybe even the second... Tho... I leaned towards Nader in that election. I would say before that I never cared about politics because they always seemed to say one thing and do another anyway. As I've gotten older, my concerns have become more national and global... I don't consider myself Democrat, or Republican.... In fact, I'm a registered Independent. And if I'm asked which one I lean towards, I say neither. Why? you might ask. Well, its simple really, if you claim to be apart of one party in our two party system... that means you must believe what the party leaders do. I don't, never will, and I just don't want to be associated with any of them.
I've also grown very tired of the ranting the Right has done with regards to the changes Obama wants to do with our Health Care System. "Socialized" as they're calling it. And I love how they constantly criticize Canada's Health Care system and how people will wait for hours to be treated.... How quickly we forget that ours really isn't all that great either, and its getting more and more expensive without the service level matching the rise in cost. Here's the thing tho... how many people in this country file for bankruptcy because of health care bills... don't quote me, but last I remember reading, is well over 50% of them. From what I've also heard, from people its happened to... the bulk of people in this country are just one illness away from being completely broke. I also believe the line in our constitution that people are entitled to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness... and I don't believe you can achieve these without proper medical care. I know one of the arguments I've heard is that people want to be selfish and not provide care to the "illegals", and to you I say "Why not?". Yes, I know they're here illegally, but lets be honest with each other... this country runs in part because of them. What I say... is illegal or not, employers and employees should be paying taxes on all of them... and some kind of non-citizen, work card should be easily obtained, no questions asked... with that... the employer and employee will need to pay taxes. If someone doesn't have this *easily obtained work card*, then deport them. I don't care much for controlling the borders, but knowing who is in the country is something that should be known and if they have ability to pay into the system that will be taking care of them (Roads,Emergency Health Care, ect..) then they should be paying into it. Also... If we all have health insurance... wouldn't that make it go down? I mean... then insurance companies could no longer use the "preexisting" clauses they love to use, and if you go to the emergency room because your really sick or injured, they cannot deny you care... someone, somewhere pays for that.
I also don't get this fear of "socialism", I mean... I want to keep as much of the money I make as possible... but so many of us spend portions of all of our incomes on the same things anyway... But, really... you can't call what we have currently a "free market" because its not... we have many government granted monopolies that it actually stops alot of the innovation that could be happing. And, if you want an example... look up issues revolving around communications... telco's and cable companies. They're given *our* tax money every year and huge tax breaks to "maintain" infastructure, and yet, our cell phone's are years behind Japan and Europe's. We are 19th for broadband internet penetration and speed... (yeah... Japan's AVERAGE is ~70+Mbit/sec). These are a result of the telco's having so much money that they can stop smaller ISP's from competing.
I really can't stand the news.
