The SoSA Perspective

Sick and tired

I always get antsy when working to help the hungry leads to taking positions on political questions. The fact of the matter is I don’t like the way politics is done very much. It seems to me that there is a far right element (‘yes, the earth is flat, says so right here in the sacred scroll’) and a far left element (‘here, have some more pie with that sky’) and not much in the middle anymore.

Health care is a case in point. I don’t know how stupid Americans really are, but it seems we are the only modern nation on the planet that just can’t figure out how to get all our people to the doctor when they get sick. And now we can’t even figure out how to hold the line on insurance for poor kids. There’s a wonderful presidential legacy, don’t you think?

But hey! I’m really not writing this to bash Bush. Where would be the challenge in that? The point is that this whole health care mess is fixable. After all the British, Germans, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Danes, Poles, Italians, Canadians, and yes Rush, even the French have figured it out. So can we. But we can’t figure anything out if our so called leaders spend most of their time sticking their tongues out at each other. So please people, for the sake of the poor sick children, put your hands in your pockets, step away from the microphone and just “git ‘er done”. I’ll bet Larry the cable guy could figure it out.