I rarely talk politics. I usually have a hard time wrapping my head around other people's ideas when they differ from my own--not because I am stubborn and one sided, but because when it comes to our country, sometimes I just can't understand other people's opinions.
However, I just have to discuss this...just have to touch on it, even if it's ever so lightly.
Last night, Mr. President spoke to our nation about our healthcare. Let me restate this--he spoke to OUR country about OUR healthcare. I have to say, it is so refreshing to actually hear a President discuss a problem that is happening in our country. His speech wasn't about a war; it wasn't about what we can do to improve someone else's freedom; it was about a huge problem in OUR country, one that he so desperately wants to fix, because it's in awful shape. I feel as though through the last administration (to protect the innocent I won't mention what his name is, or what party he is associated with) all we heard about was war, terrorism and overseas oil. Not to say that those things aren't important--they are. You'd think with my involvement with the military I'd be completely immersed in those topics--but I'm not. While all the speeches were being made and money being spent (wasted) on this war, OUR country was falling...deeper and deeper into economic depression, and not much was done about it. I know we have to protect this country--but don't you think a President should be able to multi-task? I mean he is the leader of the greatest Nation in the world, after all...
Anyway--healthcare has always been an issue that I feel very strongly about, ever since I got to watch my father suffer for all those years. I watched as my mother who was trapped inside a low paying job because she couldn't get insurance for my father anywhere else feared that the bills wouldn't get paid. I watched as the hospital bills piled up, because insurance didn't cover anything. Cancer is the most expensive disease, and no one should die from it because they can't afford it.
Finally, we have a leader who is concerned about things that affect regular Americans. Regular Americans! Americans who are jobless and scared...scared and sick...sick and going broke because of it.
His plan won't be smudge proof. It's not possible. He is human, and there can be error associated with it. But--we should feel calmed to know--that he can't screw up this country any more than the administration of the last eight years did.
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