Muse – Better Things to Write About

I stopped with debunking those entries from that ‘liberals*suck’ diarist. I admit it. Why? No challenge and the utter inanity of the person’s ‘fact’ entries was starting to melt my brain. Anyone who buys that sort of stuff deserves to. Personally, I’d rather approach something that takes a little more brainpower. My talents were going to waste and I’ve not got that much to waste.

For example, this: Is health care in America a right, a privilege or a necessity?

Ask different people and you get different answers. Personally I think that it behooves a country to see to the wellbeing of it’s people. The less they’re sick and incapacitated, the longer and more often they can work, increasing productivity. The more diseases we can cure, the lower the death rate will be overall, providing for more workers over time, especially among afflictions that cut people down early in life. As well, the higher the nations morale will be and the more we can shift focus to other problems.

I consider health care to be a logical necessity toward making a happy and prosperous nation. I think it should be both free and effective to all. But then, I think most services should be free because I believe we should live in a collective society rather than one ruled by capitalism. So my ideas on such things are more geared toward a total rewrite of society. Unfortunately it’s one that, while better, won’t work because people are too greedy and short sighted to live within it.

Though baring free health care, it should be made as accessible as possible for all levels of society, not just the rich. The healthier our people are, the healthier our nation is. Through restructuring of the health care system, insurance system, the tort system and hw companies cover their workers, we need to more or less rewrite it all to work better. But such far reaching changes are beyond our politicians. They only focus on one or two portions at most, leaving the rest to remain a problem and half foul any changes made, beneficial or not.

No one looks far enough ahead and while some consider themselves visionary, they don’t have the vision to encompass the full breadth of the problem. Or perhaps they do and would rather just pick at it.

On another topic, what do I want Bush to admit wrongdoing about? The war itself, not the justifications. He can spin the justifications however he wants, but I’d like him to admit that he didn’t plan well enough for the immediate aftermath of the war. I get a sense that very little planning went on in that and Bush has yet to really own up to it. The closest he came tt addressing it was spinning it as the US won too fast or some such bull.

Even if that were true, that just shows poor tactics in ‘letting their victory run away with them’. Until Bush shows he can acknowledge a mistake made, I don’t trust the man. Lots of people tout his confidence and steadfastness as an advantage. Yup, that can be an advantage. But he’s a little too stubborn for my tastes. To a level that I consider dangerous. Given a choice between someone too determined and someone too cautious, I’d prefer someone too cautious.

Of course, I’m one to take the side of caution over the side of bold action when it comes to uncertainness. I prefer to keep from blundering into something that’s too great to handle, which is what I think Bush did with Iraq. Only our better quality forces have kept us in control and allowed for the mistakes made before to slowly be erased, increasing the time it will take to finish what was started and leaving the result more likely to be tainted by the sort of resentment you get when bombing a city periodically.

My concern is that even if Iraq is made stable the generation coming afterward will remain cool or low key hostile to the US and prompt a negative shift in the relations of the Iraqi government once the US has finally pulled out entirely. It depends on the overall demeanor of the populace once that time comes. I don’t see it being pro-American at this point.