Postby Camino » Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:46 pm
The French system of healthcare is nationalised and it is ranked amongst the highest in the world, care to explain that little exception to the rule? Your taxes are high because your government borrows money from banks and it all has a knock on effect for everyone else. Right now you're starting on the road to a massive budget crisis, now what is going to cause tax rises?
You'll note and hopefully agree that we are but a small fraction of our nations populace and so are totally inadequate to express true sentiments for all, doesn't mean that'll stop us though.
You are quick to target the results of significant situations, based on a few significant events of the last fourty years, such as Communism. Your nation spent vast sums making sure that people didn't have the right to free speech or any of the freedoms you are so proud of, something I am keenly aware of should they ceace to exist, all in the name of democracy.
Did the populace do anything then? Of course not, they let it continue and even reveled in the fact they were stoppping the spread of the Communist hoard, of course to the people Latin America having American soldiers train their own countrymen in effective ways of tourture is hardly a complementery method. Every generation and every leadership has to pay for the mistakes of the past and to claim that because they were from the past they can't be held against the newest group is just ignoring the matter. We have to deal with consequences and more often the not it creates more because we (the people) expect a great deal from those who 'represent' us and as of yet in my brief glance at international politics I have yet to see a voting populace take action against those who made knowing mistakes in the name of image, actually taking real action is seemingly beyond us all.
The people protest here and there but we are mainly content to comment over the dinner-table or send an angry letter to some politician who couldn't make it big, all very novel expressions of freedom and of being the ones in control, not directly yet supposedly the ones with the reigns, such great doubts never really make it in to the open. Not one person has ever run for a political position and been honest that they would make mistakes and that things would go wrong but that they would always answer the call for action but never act for themselves.
That is my point about politicians of the great west, our representatives are not selfless, they are neither for us or for anyone else unless it aids them in some fashion, perhaps I should run for local government but then again I am as easily corruptable, biased, ignorant and human as the rest. Yet I can but try to act because it is the sensible choice to make not because it is the only choice we can make.
I need not tell you or anyone else the foul acts undertaken by the british Empire in the name of progress or of European civilisation, something you colonists have adapted rather well in to something much nicer and appealing then a physical empire of borders and boundaries, instead you can simply lean across to examine how this will hurt your economy.
Privatise it all I say, in the name of free trade and honest competition, you want free trade but you can't stand it when the competition will go lower then you're prepared to do so. Live with your actions, your steel industry collapses big deal at least it won't bring your entire country down by crashing the value of the dollar or causing mass riots because there isn't money for people to have food.
I guest what really disgusts me is not you or anyone in particular but rather that people will die because of something so pointless as money We can't fund medical research because there isn't the money, we can't help these people from working in conditions we would hesitate sending a multiple murdered in to because we can't afford to do anything else, we can't help people living in terrible housing or none at all because we can't afford to keep then healthy and give them an oppertunity to live.
Rk>The first part of what I said was intended directly for you the rest of it was a generalisation on multiple views expressed earlier in the topic. Tell me though, do you examine the products you buy? Do you protest against corporations moving to other countries and campaign for greater regulation of other countries, raising wages and such? You are still so proud to talk about your ancestors but I'm not sure I could claim how honourable they were based on their actions. I don't honour ancestors from hundereds of years ago because their actions were so single-minded and brutal that it makes me wonder if they should be recognised as no better then the oppressive regimes they fought against. I have yet to see any cause that did not make a grievous error that could of been prevented had it not been for the society that they lived amongst, ever the rightous and the brave.
I never said that America as a whole had it easy, I said it was built on the back of others and you took that to mean other countries well I am more then aware of the destitute in America, I am also very aware that they will never be helped because it isn't economical to provide them with health care, it isn't economical to train them to work, it isn't media friendly to just have them shipped abroad so we'll just ignore them and focus on something else. That's right we'll just forget about them and focus on something else that people can get angry about!
Those people are unemployed because you voters won't think about doing anything to help them and it sure isn't going to be any representatives doing anything because you haven't told them to but neither has the media so it would look bad if they suddenly started doing something without a wonderful media campaign to show it off!
You wanna know why the very rich aren't paying super taxes? it's because they have lawyers and interest groups who BUY LEADERSHIP they buy it and when they need a little break they get it and everyone goes happy, the lawyer is happy, the company is happy and so is the official. Now why don't you figure it out? If anything in government to do directly with the people is to complex for the person proposing it to understand it isn't going to work. If you don't get it (this is for everybody now) and it doesn't make sense and you can vote, it's a crucial factor here, then you have to do something for all the people who won't! You have use and abuse the media to get the coverage so every lazy non-voting loudmouth gets the message. It isn't enough to simply say a few words over and over you have to make it matter to them, you have to find the nastiest piece of life and shove it in their face so that they can't pretend it doesn't exist.
You won't freedom and justice well why don't you go find someone to buy it for you because at the rate things are going it will probably be on the shelves long before anyone steps up to deal with the basic issues at stake.
