One example is universal health care. Please don’t jump on me, but I don’t believe that health care is a right. It is a privilege. Those that pay get better care. Not to mention those who pay for the higher costs of health care already pay for those who can’t pay. I don’t believe that I should have to pay for someone else, especially their stupidity if that’s the case. Our capitalist society encourages competition. Sometimes it does spiral, but having the government interfere is worse. Though I agree the insurance system is messed up. But that isn’t something I feel can be fixed by universal health care.

Like I said, I sound republican now, but I am all for reform of health care insurance to lower costs, but to all – not just middle class. You cannot leave out the upper class who provides jobs to the middle class. The upper class will not be supportive of that.

I’m fairly liberal and voted for Obama, as there really was no other choice — the fault of the way our political power system works and will always work, unless it is changed from the bottom up. I expected the next 4 years to be difficult, but am increasingly disheartened by the health care situation, both on a congressional and executive level.

Democrats are no less likely to be influenced by the various lobbies and incentive than Republicans, I think they all gauge their votes by their ability to get reelected, so it is up to the people to communicate what they want to their own legislators. I understand their is concern that if the Insurance industry fails a large chunk our our economy goes with it, but how congress or the president worry about the demise of an industry with such coercive practices seems an indication that on some level industry will always come before the people. This is really unacceptable to me.

It’s nice to see someone my age taking stock of all this though, liberal or conservative.

I think that this health care issue is proving to be so tricky because there’s still lingering fall-out from the Clinton plan which gave us Newt Gingrich and all that loveliness. And they probably didn’t go about the Gitmo stuff the best way, but at least they (the administration) identified there was something wrong there and something had to change. But I agree that all this bipartisanship stuff needs to go, because it’s not working because the other side (the Republicans) aren’t operating in good faith. So while it is important to have bipartisan support, it’s not necessary and it’s time to start moving along without worrying about it.

Maybe I’m willing to cut people a little bit too much slack, and it’s been well documented that I’m a ginormous Obama supporter, but while things aren’t going perfectly I’m not ready to be frustrated or start bemoaning things. I get the feeling these things are missteps. I mean, JFK presided over something pretty disastrous at the beginning of his term (Bay of Pigs) but that’s generally seen as a misstep, especially when you see what happened after (Cuban Missile Crisis). Also, we’re in a culture that really demands instantaneous things, based on how we get our news/information/even our food (Burger King- it’s a wonderful restaurant!) so we want the instantaneous results and change, but that change that Obama brought and represents might take some time, as all things do, to be fully realized and actualized.

In closing, what a lovely and thought provoking post, you crazy liberal you! (haha)

What I will say is that I enjoy that you just don’t state your views and move on..

“I’m a Democrat.” “I’m a liberal” etc. You back it up, and with good reasons.

This is why you’re the brains of this operation.