Dems Dont Want What!?!?

In what has become perhaps the biggest event of hubris in the American governmental tradition, the State of the Union Address took place tonight with the usual scene: AIDS, Sudan, "safe troops," "strong economy," "good education for our children" evoke a standing ovation, while other, more partisan comments are met with an icy silence as each politician in the room jockeys for a camera-shot on television. Dick Cheney sat there as most business men would - looking in contempt at the self-congratulatory and inefficient process while Speaker Pelosi licked her lips nervously throughout the night, hoping that the average couch potato at home would ignore her botox-filled face and instead focus on her "symbolic value" as a women leader. The CNN commentators discussed how she was "poking through the cement (not glass) ceiling" of the American political system, for instance. I saw tokenism.



Seeing as we sit there watching this disgusting spectacle of power-hungry politicians anyway, it was interesting to watch just what people clapped at and what they didnt. The following are a list of things the dems DID NOT clap at which I found a little outragous. I was most struck 2, 4, and 6, with 2 and 4 showing an utter contempt for private enterprise and a basic separation from reality, while 6 shows an equally intense contempt for our culture.

1. Balance the Budget
2. Agree with the statement "for most citizens, private health insurance best meets their needs"
3. Expand health savings accounts
4. association health plans for small businesses
5. medical liability reform to protect good doctors from junk lawsuits
6. "assimilate immigrants"
7. "clean, safe, nuclear power"

Since the very first politicians in Greece and Rome, there has been a distrust for politicians, believing that they only work for their own needs and hold contempt for those they "represent." I have come to see that this is indeed the case, siding with the oft dismissed folk wisdom that the two types of people not to trust are politicans and lawyers. We should therefore hold double the distrust for the politicans, as they are often lawyers themselves.

-burke

The Wonders of Cuba's Free Health Care

In what has to be one of the greatest ironies, Cuba's dictator, Fidel Castro underwent surgery in his communist paradise which, if you listen to our Spanish department, boasts free, quality care for its citizens. The surgery has been said to be botched, and Castro is said to be in critical condition. Yet the progressives in this country still wish to implement a universal health care system despite its notoriously long waiting lines, minimal freedom of health care services,and as Castro's case has demonstrated to us, poor quality of care.

"It's not a good story. Too bad they didn't send him to Miami for surgery," said Dr. Charles Gerson, a clinical professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

Yes, too bad indeed.

-burke