How can the republicans bitch about "illegals" raising our healthcare costs because they don't have health insurance and then go to the hospital on "our dollar" but then say they don't think everyone should have health insurance which would spread the risk pool and lower healthcare costs enormously. Oh wait. I know how. Pretty much everything they say is a fucking lie. By they I do of course mean the politicians not the voters. The voters are either selfish or horribly horribly misguided/misinformed. They say that "forcing" them to buy healthcare is an affront to their freedom. Which is a load of bollox. They want to stick their fucking business in women's vaginas and ovaries and then they have the fucking nerve to say that asking people to share the risk pool for insurance is an affront to their fucking freedom?!! I know that a lot of people don't understand the bill, but it's not like it's forcing people to drop their insurance and pay for some different insurance. I don't even get the fucking mindset of these idiots. They are so selfish they would rather bitch about freedom than just pay taxes for a fucking national health care system that would make people like 50% of those who are in bankruptcy because of medical costs, non-existent. Just because they are all addicted to money and even thought they don't need it they want every single penny of the money that they think they earned even if it means a few million children die a year of starvation or lack of medical care.
So I say, fuck them! How dare they legislate against women and the middle class and the poor! Fuck them! I will vote until the day I die but I sure as shit don't have any illusions that my vote is going to make as much of a difference if the system wasn't horribly tainted by money and selfish rich people who don't believe in sharing. I am horrified by these people. These are people who let elderly people die in their homes during winter because it's too cold and they can't afford their medication, which keeps them alive, and their heat. They think they can stick it out but they end up dying. Or elderly who live in Florida, and because these same people think it's their god given right to litter and pollute all they want even though there is absolute fucking proof of global warming caused by humans, and the elderly couple dies of heat because again they can't afford their medications and their air conditioning. Or they can't afford to move.
How fucking dare they think that somehow they are more important than anyone else. Do you think they will every have to watch a child die of starvation or because they have no health coverage? I don't think they even know what it's like to take out student loans for their children. I don't think they know what it's like to take the bus that only comes twice a day because they don't want to pay any of their precious pay check for public transportation because they don't use it. I have no problem paying taxes whatsoever. I have a problem paying taxes only in that the wealthy pay little or no taxes, with creative accounting, and with the way the tax law is set up, and I believe everyone should pay their fair share. I believe in tax laws forcing them to because I don't believe that self regulation works. I have seen proof that self regulation does not work in the banking crisis, the housing crisis, the oil spills, fracking, etc. All of those things and the disasters that have been caused from poor management and no oversight are because of lack of regulation. This is why I am not an anarchist. I do not believe that people can govern themselves. I believe that what happens when you let people govern themselves is slavery. You have to have enforcers and they must be inspected by others who in turn must be inspected by others, and at some point, and at all points must be beholden to the public and inspected by the public and elected and appointed by the public.
I will just use an example of where the public should really have more control but does not seem to even have the proper access to information. The Denver police department appears to be reaching new levels of corruption. They have always been corrupt, as long as I have been alive at least, and this is not good. This is proof that the corruption runs deep. The internal affairs head they just assigned has been proven already to be corrupt. This is why there should be public reviews and they should be able to decide when to overhaul such a corrupt department. When I was a young teenager there was a group of people who started this practice of filming the police all of the time. They did this because the police were constantly beating people up and committing horrific acts of violence against people because they knew that if they were caught by the department, nothing would happen. So these people literally were like the neighborhood watch but to find suspicious police, and this helped. This was something that managed to get violence down so much that it amazed a lot of people. However, I think a lot of people stopped doing this because the department didn't seem to be committing so many acts of violence. Now people have started to do this again, and it is sort of a more national thing, and the police are fighting back.
I can't really go into the story I want to tell but I'll just say that there are cases where the police have pursued those with cameras and beaten them up and stolen the footage. On more than one occasion. Even more occasions they simply take the recording equipment and delete everything on it. In a way the cameras around the city, in a big brother sort of spread but at a much smaller level than say the UK, are an asset to the public because they have caught several moments of police brutality and they have been given to the news or other sources where it has been published and often the police are punished. But never harshly. I have maybe only once heard of police actually losing their jobs because of brutality. That is not good. That means that even when the police are caught, they still are on the job. Some officers have such a high number of complaints against them you wonder how long a sentence this would be for a normal person. If you beat people up 50 times and were actually written up for 20, you would most likely be spending some time in prison, and you would definitely lose your job if you did it while working.
Anyhow, I know I always get off topic but these are rants. So basically I'm sick of the selfish nature of conservatives. I'm sick of people saying deregulation is the only way to get businesses to grow. It's bullshit and causes such dire consequences that it's already caused the collapse of the our financial market and the poisoning for millions of animals and thousands, probably actually millions, of people. And the Denver Police Department is corrupt. I'm sure there are many with this problem, as I said I believe that police are a necessary part of society, but I think that we must start over. We must completely scrape out the system and start over. It is rife with corruption and the system is set up to even encourage this corruption, which means that this is a hard fix. We have to fix from the top down and this also means starting over in many places.
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