America is Sick!

Time for a little tough love. All this nonsense with health care is making me sick. We need the lawmakers who are appearing at these town halls to stand up to those who are shouting them down. I believe in free speech. What I don't believe is to let someone shout lies in front of TV cameras without standing your ground and correcting those misguided, and sometimes, planted words.

Interestingly, lots of those who are shouting appear to be elderly, who while decrying a nationalized health care system, are comfortably enjoying one themselves by taking advantage of Medicare.

I believe in the power of debate as well. However, there is nothing advantageous to a debate that goes:

Interior: Congress. Men and women take their seats. As the mummer fades, a woman from Party A, stands up to speak.

Woman: "I believe we should have X and here is a detailed plan on how it will work."

As she is finishing, a man from party B stands to speak. Behind him stands a huge poster of a dragon and a Knight.

Man: "No, that sucks."

The end.

If there is an opposition to this health care plan, then lets hear alternative suggestion to fixing it, not just why it won't work.

Maybe I am being a pessimist, but when the small minority of leaders of a ideology so detests the ideas of another (an idea that's suppose to help every American) and offers no solutions, perhaps it is because they are protecting themselves from being irrelevant or, they really don't have the good of the people at heart.