Reply #12: I really take offense at the kind of generalization you're making. I have been an opponent of this [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

bill. I'm now convinced that it will pass, and when it does, I'll shift to advocating fixing the bad parts. I'll be joining the fight to make it better.

Not ALL opponents of this bill are racists. I'm not a racist, nor am I a warmonger or nutjob. I don't hate ANYONE.

My wife's retirement package is where I get my medical insurance. She retired from PacBell, which is now AT&T. We have Kaiser. She's coming up on 61, and I'm coming up on 49. I'm afraid that AT&T will reneg on their contractual obligation to provide her with medical insurance. It's happened before.

Either way, I'm going to fall under the mandate to purchase insurance from private corporations sooner or later. Most likely sooner. What that means to me, is that I'll be forced to buy medical insurance from a company whose CEO makes 1000 times more than its lowliest mailroom clerk. There's a reason for the disparity in wages... Money flows uphill in this country. Shit rolls downhill, money rolls uphill. Bottom line is that I'm going to be forced to buy insurance from a private corporation, but that purchase in no way guarantees that I'll be able to afford to use it. I have one reconstructed ACL courtesy of the United States Navy, and another due to an injury I suffered while working for a company who (after the US Government decided I was no longer fit for duty) washed their hands of me even though I suffered the injury on the clock. Pretty soon, I'm going to need one, maybe two knee replacements.

But you go on with your bad self, and call anyone who opposes this legislation ignorant. Call them out of control. Call them racists, warmongers, and nut jobs. Call them a scourge, as one would call locusts, who descend upon fruitful land and leave nothing in their wake.

Yes We Can will turn out to be Oh No You Di'nt, and if the fixes don't start happening fast and furious, a lot of people are going to get fucked. In light of recent events, I'm thinking that fucked will come waaaay before fast and furious fixes.