A Political Rant.

This is a clip from HBO's The Newsroom, IT HAS FOUL LANGUAGE, so if you don't want to watch it because of that......you have fair warning. I just think it's too good not to share, but please listen tp the WHOLE thing.

I do not believe this to be Anti-American. I believe this to be the view of some writer who evidently, has lived thru many major issues in this country over the past few decades. And you know, I do believe most of what he writes to be true. This country isn't the greatest country in the world......but it used to be. And it can be again. I love living here, it's a great nation. But it's exhausting living in a country where we have now become a country of "entitlement" and "I'm owed."

I woke up at 6am this morning and from the time I got up, the Supreme Court decision(s) were the only thing being covered on most major news stations. Obviously, if you watch any news at all, you know how the vote went on Obamacare and the Fast and Furious case with Attorney General Eric Holder. If you do not want to hear my opinion on either of these, I vote you shut down your browser and return later for regularly scheduled programming about "normal" life. I just can't not share my opinion. It's too important. THIS is too important. 

I'm about to have a baby. Do you know how scary it is to know that the Supreme Court, the highest level of authority, just voted that every American must purchase health insurance by 2014 or be taxed? Penalized. Charged for NOT doing something people in power, that WE THE PEOPLE elected, decided for us.............

Let me preface by saying this, I believe every American should have the opportunity for health insurance. My family has it and it is NOT cheap. We pay a pretty penny for it. I'm all for figuring out some type of coverage that is affordable and available for Americans, even when their employers don't offer coverage. What scares me is that by mandating either get insurance or be taxed, we are creating an "entitlement" culture (even worse so than there is now) into MY generation and my DAUGHTER'S generation. Life isn't fair. It never has been. Go back and read history. Was it fair that over 6 million Jews were killed and murdered by a man who clearly was evil? No. Is it fair that 3,000 Americans died in 2001 by territorists? Absolutely not. There is nothing fair about what happens in life. Nothing.

So why is it, we are now trying to "even the playing field" by making everything mandated by the government? I completely agree that insurance companies and the health care field have done this to themselves. They have risen the cost of health care over the years so completely and utterly high that most employers don't want to pay the taxes and coverage for their employees. Insurance companies have made it so incredibly difficult to get coverage if you have a "pre-existing" condition that pregnancy is even considered one. Are you kidding me? Half of this whole problem is their own stupid fault. But the other half............the half that wants coverage for people who don't pay taxes, are here illegally, or just likes the idea of a socialist society..........well........that's just stupidity.

I believe every child in American has the right to health care, regardless if their parents are citizens or not. But at what point do we, as Americans and humans, hold other's accountable? I come from a family of workers. We work. We get up and go to work everyday, regardless of how much we might hate it, regardless of what kind of people we have to deal with daily, regardless of the weather, how sick I am, whatever. Why is it fair that I do what I'm suppose to do while other's choose not to do the right thing? You know what........it's not. Life isn't fair. It's not suppose to be. Why do you think God made us all different with different talents and gifts? BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY HE WANTED IT.

How boring would life be if we all made the same amount of money, had the same amount of kids, looked the same, lived in the same type of house, wore the same type of clothes............what possible thing would you have to work towards? NOTHING. So why are certain people in office trying to making everything fair?I have my own personal opinion on that, but I won't share it. This nation was set up for capitalistic society with the opportunity for growth. What do you say to my friend's dad who went thru the entire process of becoming an American citizen so many years ago to now find out, he really didn't have to do that. He could have been here the entire time and just "grandfathered" in to become a citizen. The current political party just spit in his face and said "You don't need to do the right thing........it's not really important." And you know what, if this health insurance coverage is SO great, why does NO ONE  in government have to participate in it? Why are their children not forced into it? They are all excluded from it. Hmmmmm. Must be nice. But we're suppose to buy that this is for the good of all the American people. Right.

So, at what point does it stop? At what point we say, NO! ENOUGH. 

I don't have the answer, this is way beyond me. But I do know that the only way for me to express my thoughts and opinions is to not be afraid to share it and to VOTE. It's a simple answer. And then, to trust in God for the rest. And pray. Pray for my daughter, pray for my family, pray for our country.