SICKO by Michael Moore
by
shackhappy
on Mon 16 Feb 2009 12:34 PM CST
I watched the Michael Moore movie last night about our health care system compared to the health care systems of Canada, Britain, France, and then Cuba. By the time we got to Cuba, I had tears in my eyes for the September 11, 2001 rescue workers who have been completely abandoned by the Bush administration and who still suffer all manner of ailments from that dreadful experience.
One thing: Michael Moore did not mention anywhere exactly what kind of taxes the people pay to obtain their health care systems. I do believe it's a philosophy that the rich do pay more taxes than what they like to pay in this country. But just think of the hoops ordinary people who are sick have to jump through and how much we have to pay to get taken care of. Those horror stories were awful. I kept thinking of moving to Canada in order to escape this inhumane system we have here in the United States.
George W. Bush and the Amazing Sacred Embryos
by
shackhappy
on Mon 16 Feb 2009 11:43 AM CST
I watched the interview of that woman who recently gave birth to 8 babies, and has 6 children already. I know she loves embryos, but who is watching the kids now? While she's doing the interview? This woman has been living on taxpayer dollars for most of her adult life, and she's in good shape now to rake it in for a very long time. No way is she able to care for them and pay for them as she goes along. It isn't possible. It is IMpossible. I wanted to ask her if she voted for Bush, by any chance, because she kept stressing how she considered those embryos to be her babies, and it was so important to give birth to the sacred life forms that embryos represent to her. Is she getting back at her mother for not "giving" her brothers and sisters! Her mom called her actions unconscionable, and I have to agree with her. Everything this woman will need for the next 20 years or so will cost enormous amounts of money for the rest of the country. She'll need volunteers, at least, just to help with changing, feeding, bathing, etc. That's not MOM taking care of you, kid. That's actually somebody else, helping mom out. Who does she think she is kidding. The amount of effort needed to raise one baby, to hold your sick child wrapped up in a blanket on your lap all night, to make sure he/she will be all right.... Well, at least the doctor who implanted her and went along with her hair-brained scheme, should be charged with something. He, at least, should have been sane enough to realize the truth.
