Most Madame M:
Welcome back!
I am tickled that you
feel my suggestions of January 10th are “simple and doable enough.” Since modern constitutional amendments start
in Congress with a 2/3rds majority, there are a lot of people there who would
find their own selfish or fearful reasons not to do 1 and 2. And partisans on both sides would disagree
with number 4, depending on how things were looking state legislature wise back
in their states. And as you said, number
3 would have fierce resistance. But
trusting in Colin Powell’s maxim that “optimism is a force multiplier,” maybe
enough Americans could be persuaded to pressure their legislators! :) Lot of groundwork to do!
As for Medicare, it
wasn’t a well thought out program for several reasons. I will mention just a few.
It was an actuarial
train wreck from the beginning. The
inversion once the baby boomers began retiring would be utterly unsustainable,
especially with the paltry funding streams.
Of course, that problem
was exacerbated off the scale by rising costs of medical care, a process that
was greatly accelerated from the self-feeding aspect of medical care’s greatest
users, the elderly, being given an almost free ride.
And then we had to
become even more isolated, with less family involvement medically, leading to
even more of EVERYTHING—basic care, advanced care, prescriptions, long-term
care, etc.
And then as our
environment saw more toxins, as diets deteriorated, as we became more
sedentary, and at the same time more disconnected, people became even
sicker.
Although all of this
could not have been foreseen, or at least all its degrees, the advocates and
politicians did not think those out, responding instead to pleas to avert
medically-caused poverty in the elderly.
And so we have yet ANOTHER American problem caused by our infantile lack
of foresight.
“We
value war over health. Politics over solutions. Profit over nearly everything
else.” Well said Madame!
We keep getting all sorts of disinformation,
deception, and deflection coming at us.
For instance, the supposed study that “showed” that organic food "is not more
nutritious.” Doubtful, but perhaps it is
the case. Yet, how asinine. For compared to what? Freshly picked? When?
Certainly not after transport and storage. But it is all deception and deflection
anyway, for the primary quality of organic food is ignored in the shallow and
directed media coverage: freedom from
most or all pesticides and herbicides.
And what was the impetus for such a study? And who trumpeted its conclusions? Something we need to ask in MANY things that
are “reported.”
By the way, I can’t stop smiling at your term:
“paste eating toddlers.” I keep picturing
millions of Americans in their homes and cars and offices, etc., sitting around
with a dull look, eating paste out of a jar. :)
This goes right along
with my Kiplingesque thought for the week: If you can keep your sense of humor
while all around you are losing theirs…
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