Tea Party Scare Tactics

What do I think of the tea party people?

I think they would love anarchy, is my impression, and no government interference with anything. This means to me they stand for anything goes mentality and when anything goes, it's the powerful who begin to abuse their "freedom" to abuse those without. It's the history of our world.

They don't believe people have a right to affordable medical care and if you can't earn enough to pay for it, then too bad. This is third world nation stuff. Oh wait, some third world nations have health care for all their citizens.

When I was trying to figure out a way to take that cat trapping job in Eugene, but couldn't, because I can't move and I would not make enough to live or to have health coverage, the woman offering the job said she has a friend who is paying $800 a month in health care premiums, but that does not include the copays and spend downs. So many people go under just trying to pay premiums. It's ridiculous.

In my opinion right now, the tea party is a friend of the corporation and not a friend of the average American. What's their stance on health care? You're on your own, baby! Buy it or go without. Yup. If you're middle aged and have any history of health issues, the tea party says go fuck yourself.

I do not know much about the health care bill passed this year. I do know a lot of people think it will help them afford coverage for once. But it doesn't do anything to lower costs or much to address the greed in the middle, a.k.a. insurers. We don't need the middle. The middle only sucks from both ends.

Paying out premiums for health care doesn't mean you get health care. It means you have insurance. I believe health care reform would eliminate middle man insurance completely and either be single payer or cash pay by customer. To aid competition in the latter category, doctors and hospitals would need to post price lists and outcome percentages, so people could really choose, like we do any other business, by price and quality.

Now, we have no idea what we're going to be charged if we go to the doctor and two people going to the same doctor for the same thing might get charged entirely different prices. That ain't right. There can be no competition in health care to bring down prices if nobody knows what the prices are. It's a big secret.

I saw Sean Penn on TV a couple nights ago. He was raging. He was tired and venting his despair through rage. He'd been running around Port au Prince for almost 18 hours with a dying teenager, trying to find the medicine that would save him. He finally found a medical team who met him in a warehouse, set up a table, but it was too late for the 15 year old. And Sean Penn didn't take it easily.

Next time I hear the right making fun of movie actor activists, my blood will heat up. I'll think of Sean Penn, as I saw him, after a fight to the death for that boy's life. If Sean Penn is someone to be ridiculed for such behavior, then I want to be ridiculed like that too.

In other news, according to the neighbor, the Arab guy living across the street, with his young wife from Philomath, has left for Iraq or somewhere, allegedly serving as an interpretor for the US military, since he speaks the language. He is supposedly making big bucks over there, also according to a neighbor, and that is supposedly from the wife. Sure, it makes me slightly nervous, after the car bomb in NY episode. But, hopefully he is working for the military and not getting trained to blow Americans up. I'm sure that's not the case. Arabs in America are probably severely scrutinized not only by neighbors but by nearly everyone and most are just ordinary people. But when you got Arab Americans going overseas then coming back here to try to commit acts of terrorism, if I were an Arab in America, I'd understand that concern.

There was someone my brother knew, who could not find a job in southern Oregon and finally went to Iraq to work for a private contractor. He made huge bucks, but often for doing nothing and sent back reports that were horrifying, of private contractors raping women working for the company, and of wasting taxpayer dollars in extreme manner.