Well, I came up with the idea to start this blog after getting fed up with the number of news stories out there that just plain make me angry. I'm not too articulate in person and I can be as eloquent as I need to be in cyberspace. I find it easier to put my thoughts to the keyboard instead of stuttering and allowing confusion to take control.

This is a medium where I can vent my frustrations at the world as a whole. This blog won't be for everyone and it probably won't be for very many people. It will be very political and religious. If at anytime you start to wonder about which way my views lean, look at my user name. The Secular Humanist. 

Secular: A position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions

Humanist:  a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. 

This is me in a nutshell. I am an atheist, I no longer believe in God and I definitely don't believe in religion. I find that most humans do despicable things in the name of religion and that right now, in America at least, that we have lost all reason. 

Here we have one man, whether you agree with him politically or not trying to give every single person in the United States health care that they can afford. It's not free health care as somebody has to pay for it and that somebody are the tax payers. You have a man (whom I don't really agree with in the first place and didn't vote for) who may not have the best things in mind for our country when it comes to our freedoms (renewing illegal wiretapping laws and renewing the patriot act) but is doing the single best thing for it's people. He's trying to give them their lives. 

Agree, disagree, I don't care. Complain about who is going to pay for health care and cry and throw a fit that it will be coming out of your pocket, but do you know what? I don't freaking care if they raise taxes if it means that a little boy or girl can get treated for a disease or sickness that it so common that a simple visit to the doctor for anti-biotics can fix it. I know people who are so sick at times that they can't work. My wife was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder earlier this year and has been suffering with it for most of her life. Most people don't understand the disease and would write it off as simple mood swings when in reality that it can be quite debilitating. If you've never lived with someone who can be so down one week that they can think nothing about harming themselves and there is no reason for it and then the next week that they are so manic and high that they honestly think that if they jumped in front of a bus that they wouldn't get hurt then you wouldn't know how hard it is for that person to hold down a job. It's not for lack of trying or them being lazy. I know Gem wants to work more than anything in the world but she cannot because she actually ruined her resume due to her illness. She didn't mean to, she tried to work while she was untreated and un-medicated and in the end it came back to bite her in the ass. 

As it stands right now, if she had been living on her own in America instead of in England where the health care is awesome, she would still be unmedicated and untreated and unable to see a doctor or a psychiatrist because she would not be able to afford it. In reality, she would be dead right now and all because health care costs an arm and a leg. As it stands she is now medicated and doing perfectly fine thanks to the socialized health care of the military and the socialized health care in England. 

Back to my original point. I found two articles today that made me shake my head and wonder what the hell is wrong with people. 

The first is www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/obama_addresses_black_caucus_on_health_care.php

"At the G-20 economic summit that wrapped up Friday in Pennsylvania, Obama told a story about an unnamed foreign leader who privately told the president he didn't understand the at-times contentious debate over changing the health care system.

"He says, 'We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you. That doesn't make sense to me,'" Obama said, quoting the world leader he declined to identify."

That right there sets the mood for the entire country right now. Obama is trying to guarantee the health for every single person in this country and people are comparing him to one of the most evil men in history. A man who started a war that left half of the world in flames, who created a brutal oppressed society and burned books. How the hell can you compare them together? 

How evil must YOU be if you would deny your fellow human being the right to be healthy for the cost of several trips to McDonald's several times a month. Are you that selfish that you would rather thousands die because they have a life-threatening diseases that is most likely nothing they could have done in their normal everyday life to prevent it?

Read this article about some normal everyday heroes and see the kind of people that need this health care because they cannot afford insurance. www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6639046.html

There is also the argument about illegal immigrants coming into our country and using the healthcare system as well and you using your tax money to pay for them. I've got news for you, what the hell do you think you're doing with two wars right now in the middle east? You're paying for Iraqi and Afghani citizens to have food and medicine. Whenever there is a tsunami in the far east, you're paying for the US Air Force to airlift food and medicines to them. They aren't American citizens, who is up in arms about that?

The fact of the matter is that they are your fellow human beings and they deserve to have the same chance at life that you do. Yes there are the lazy bastards out there who choose not to have a job and to lay about for months but again, they are your fellow human beings and they deserve the same quality health care that you have.

I'm sorry that this first entry is so long but I have to start somewhere.

I hope that you'll stay tuned, please feel free to comment...

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