X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/clinton/website/src/unknownlamer.org.git/blobdiff_plain/e281f5a24c65f4b61af4f845188c7bada65306e4..886477c77fc14cade5fb3f2ee14d5649260d1121:/Politics.muse

diff --git a/Politics.muse b/Politics.muse
index 291baba..f1615a9 100644
--- a/Politics.muse
+++ b/Politics.muse
@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@ a liberal; nor am I a conservative. I do not buy into the traditional
 socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the *political compass* two
 dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described
 as *curmudgeonly bastard* if you must have a label for it. This is only
-because being an curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
+because being a curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
 broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional
-heriarchial political and social structures (*i.e* hating everything). I
-reject the *ressentiment* (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional
-anarchism and believe not that every man should have no master (for
-then *all* would be weak), but rather that he should be his own master.
+political and social structures (*i.e* hating everything). I reject the
+*ressentiment* (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and
+believe not that every man should have no master (for then *all* would
+be weak), but rather that he should be his own master (does that even
+*mean* anything? Eh, it sounds nice so who cares).
 
 These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each
 will perhaps be extended in the future.
@@ -32,6 +33,40 @@ do anything by large scale action. As far as the individual is
 concerned we no longer live in a Republic, but rather in an Plutocracy
 which is quickly descending into something far worse.
 
+*** Healthcare *Reform*
+
+Upon airing my objections to the current Healthcare *Reform* bill, I was
+asked: did you read the bill? To which I replied with action and read
+[[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3590&tab=summary][the official summary of the bill]]. And now I ask those who asked me if
+I had read it: have *you* read it. I received as a reply an unequivocal:
+*why should I have to*.
+
+Fun fact: it isn't as bad as some people make it seem, but guess what?
+*It does nothing beneficial to the individual*. All it does it require
+that anyone over 30 purchase insurance, severely restricts the usage
+of Health Savings Accounts (which, may be not so bad--I have no
+opinion on their usefulness... but *Republicans* created them so they
+*must* be *evil*), and is generally a piece of hey-look-I-did-something
+(but nothing goes into effect until I am out of office)
+legislation. This has never happened before, obviously. We are on the
+surface of Mars now too didn't you know.
+
+Meanwhile there is what amounts to no price controls, an actual *ban* on
+the formation of State run healthcare (until 2017, and then only at
+the discretion of the HHS secretary), and token (unfunded) support for
+the formation of healthcare cooperatives. There are some taxes on
+large drug makers, but the research required by the FDA for drug
+approval is *tax deductible* (and so the larger drug makers can avoid
+most of the new taxes, har). And... an excise tax on overly fancy
+healthcare plans... more or less, a nice bill that, if it manages to
+not be overturned by 2018, will do absolutely nothing one way or the
+other.
+
+It is obvious that I am indeed a dirty Nazi redneck terrorist
+teabagger Republican piece of shit who hates the poor and black
+people. I guess it's time for my white ass to move to Iran and see how
+I like it there!
+
 ** Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
 
 Cooperation is better than exploitation. How can one justify an
@@ -202,6 +237,12 @@ discouraged, and those of us who wish to argue our points with logic
 are met with the undefeatable enemy of a closed mind that has been
 exposed to propaganda from birth.
 
+*** The Talking Heads
+
+Poison the well. Burn a strawman.
+
+This is real argument. Real thought.
+
 ** The Automobile
 
 ; How far is your average trip in a car? If you don't often go further