Movie thoughts....

Movies are great aren't they! They are entertaining, fun to watch, and sometimes if you aren't careful they make you think of a different world. Sometimes there are little details that that make you think of how they effect the world at large.

FOR INSTANCE:

Today I'm watching a movie and it has some parts that are dealing with the history of a nation full of hard working people that always seemed to be on the edge of development. We were a nation that prided itself on hard work and development. The particular development in question here was the railroad. Once upon a time we developed a railway that connected two sides of the continent. It was the envy of the world. Fast fwd to today...instead of building a railroad or updating our infrastructure we are left with an office of quibbiling men who would rather debate the proposition of helping people than ACTUALLY helping people. We are now years behind other nations. There is already and has been for a while now a bullet train operating in Japan for a while. Yet we (our government) has been talking about building one for the past 20yrs. There are plans to "start planning" to build a like train on the west coast. So now we are having meetings to have a meeting about the planning stages. Instead of development and giving people jobs we are pushing through legislation that the "people" (that's us) are split on or against.

We are sitting on our laurels and allowing the world to pass us by while touting an old reputation. This reputation was earned by hard work and yet we have done nothing in recent history to CONTINUE earning the reputation. Let's lead by example. Like the military says, lead from the front not the back. Let's give people jobs instead of GIVING money away to large corporations. Let's stimulate the economy the only way it CAN be stimulated from the bottom up not the top down. Now I know I'm not an economist with a big degree from some well respected college, but it seems to me that a lot of the "recession" (let's just call it the great deppression II) has to do with "consumer spending". Now correct me if I'm wrong but it is the lower half that makes up the great majority of consumer spending. It would seem to this uneducated soul that it makes more sense to bolster the consumer rather than the large corporations whose undicsiplined spending without fear of reprisal got them into this mess in the first place. But then again what do I know. Although it would seem like we've been here before and one of the ways that we got out of it the first time was by a comprehensive job plan that gave Americans jobs. We built parks, roads, cleaned up the country by just giving people a way to make a living. Now to the uneducated (me) it seems like this MAY help us in our current situation.

I sit here day in and day out in wonder about what we have accomplished in our country's great history. But I'm also ashamed that we have let the government get in the way of allowing us to be the great nation that we all know we are. We let criminals off on technicalities, we give illegals more rights and privledges than our own citizens. When are we going to make it stop? When does it end? We aren't looking for handouts merely hand ups. We are also asking that our tax dollars are spent on our own citizens not everyone ELSE. Is that too much to ask for? A system to be accountable? A government to be accountable for its actions? People that spend money to be accountable for the manner in which they spend it? That's what the health insurance issues come down to. There is no American worth their salt that wants to deny benefits to the less fortunate TAX PAYING CITIZENS. But to those who make a choice not to buy health insurance vs. the new boat we do have problem with that. BE ACCOUNTABLE, that's what we are asking because we as the middle class are CONSTANTLY held accountable for the actions of the higher and lower. We sit idely by as people abuse a welfare system. We do nothing as a bill passes that will make us pay more and cause us insurance issues for the next 10yrs.

So where do we go next? Anyone else have some thoughts?

A few commuting thoughts....

So there I am last night ready to go to bed and I thought I'd check my email and facebook on my trusty Iphone. Liz writes me that she to continue to write things....A friend of mine (Nick) suggested blogging. I think that Blaire thinks it will become cathartic for me and kind of allow me to "vent" to the world. Thusly here I am....well that and I feel like I have something to say and no where (right now) to say it. So what better way to get things out than to blog them to absolutely no one in particular and see what happens....

SO let's get down to the bare bones of today

There I am on my way home from a three day stint at work listening to the radio (a little old schoolish rap) and Eminem comes on and it starts me thinking about the things that have occured over the past few days. I found out that because a president that preaches of change pushed his bill fwd that is going to cost me in execess of 40% on my health insurance per MONTH because I have a unionized health plan. Ouch. So let me get this straight because I don't want anyone twisting what I'm saying here. I'm getting charged more because there are people out there who can't afford insurance....I'm good with that. NO REALLY I AM. In fact I'm excited about that! I'm excited to help those less fortunate that I am. I'm PUMPED about that. Let's review what I'm not excited about.

-Not excited about paying for insurance for someone who owns a boat, a motorcycle, three cars and vacations three times a year but figures state funded health insurance is fine because they've done the research and found that they can manipulate their income to a point where it seems like they make much less than they actually do. This puts them in that golden catagory of "qualifies" and allows them to use MY tax dollars for their insurance....meanwhile I'm still paying good hard earned money so that I can run a 911 call for said patient with hang nail.

-Not excited to pay for health care for non tax paying citezens who continue to use the vast majority of the medicare coverage out there for themselves and their families and then DON'T pay any taxes to pay back into the system. Do you realize that 70% of all the people in CA state prisions are illegal aliens. What do you think the statistics are for illegal aliens utilizing government funded medical care? I mean I didn't finish college or anything but......

-Not excited to(and this is the absolute icing on the cake) watch a democratic system continually be manipulated until it resembles more of a dictatorship than a democratic system. So let me ask you this....if the country's people (that's us) are still split on the healthcare issue....how did it pass? Could it be that the very people that we have voted for continue to do their own will vs. the will of the people. Interesting.....no I really don't think it's interesting I think it's a tradgedy.

Well that's really what I've got for today so what do you guys think?