Comments on: NATIONAL HEALTHCARE IS NATIONAL SECURITY

By: Vincent Galatro

Vincent Galatro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:23:09 +0000

I was hoping to use your July 2, 2009 Healthcare Cartoon on our website. Please email me if this is permissable.

By: Politicalpartypooper

Politicalpartypooper — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:34:25 +0000

Thanks Jane,

It isn’t Christian at all to lt the least of our brothers suffer, but then again, we are most definitely not a Christian nation. We are a Capitalist nation first. Michael Moore?

Umm, couldn’t you have found someone better to compare me with?

By: jane

jane — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:36:46 +0000

Hi Poopster. I like the aim of this post. Reminds me of (gah! Dirty Fucking Hippie!) Michael Moore, who said that the key is to make health care a non-profit (e.g. –and I don’t mean i.e.– government-run) industry. Take the profit motive out. There is no way for them to increase profits (always the goal in private industry) without charging us higher premiums and/or denying coverage. He had a good fucking point there, and so do you.

How “Christian” is it to let the least of my brothers suffer, etc. etc.?

By: Politicalpartypooper

Politicalpartypooper — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:41:28 +0000

Joe,

So long as we “underwrite” people’s health, individuals will have a price tag on their bodies. I am glad to see you are passionate about National healthcare. We need about three hundred million more of us to feel the same. Maybe then our elected officials won’t ignore us.

By: GItheJOE

GItheJOE — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:58:10 +0000

I have screamed this idea of Healthcare or the right to mend your wounds as one of the basics needs of life for years. Just the idea of putting a price tag on your body is wrong.

By: willpen

willpen — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:41:33 +0000

Cecil,

You bring up some great points and you are right that changing a word will not change the deed. But I am thinking more of a shift in mentality. Words are perceptions and perceptions are almost always pre-conceived notions. A changing of the dialogue, be it through words or actions is what we need here.

As PPP said above about Jefferson and Washington, the act of affiliation would have seemed treasonous because the entire concept of political parties never even entered into the initial equation.

But, look a bit further beyond those first heady days of a new country to see how quickly Jefferson and Adams were bitten by the political party bug. Washington managed to remain unscathed by this but both Jefferson and Adams took this to the next level.

So the fact is that from the beginning there was bound to be sides. The thing is now I think we are ready to start changing some of those perceptions. If changing the words or the way we say them helps, then I am all for it.

By: Politicalpartypooper

Politicalpartypooper — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:24:37 +0000

Cecil,

Libervative IS a cute word, but this isn’t a cute issue. I agree with you. One of the reasons I am so anti-political party is because of all the money that changes hands between our elected officials and lobbyists. You are right; no one wants to lose that money.

That’s why I say that political parties are treasonous. Just about every elected official who is affiliated with a political party puts his party and campaign money ahead of the welfare of our nation. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington would have called that treason. In fact, I don’t see a single politician today who would have enough honor in his blood to even hold the scrotum of those two men. Maybe Obama…we’ll see.

By: Cecil Jones

Cecil Jones — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:03:56 +0000

Liberative is a cute word, but it will take more than words to make this dream reality. Health care is big business. It’s bigger than giving blood to the American Red Cross. Money changes hands in a lot of dark alleys and nobody wants to lose that money. Insurance pays for something when we don’t need it and it doesn’t pay when we do. Social Security gets to keep the money if and when you die. It’s a Ponzi scheme. Insurance is a mob shakedown. Do you think a cute word will change this? Until its a crime to profit from death, nothing will change.

By: politicalpartypooper

politicalpartypooper — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:01:46 +0000

I used to ask if guys like him had been dropped on his head as an infant. Now, however, I try to understand…but the problem is, I don’t know if they want to be understood.

“Some people just want to watch the world burn”

By: willpen

willpen — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:55:56 +0000

You have no idea how many Travis’ I have come across in my years with dealing with the public. I rise to the occasion with people like him and love to play with their heads. They make it so easy…