-whateverism.

Let me correct that misconception. Joe Wilson voted with the rest of the Republicans on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00001:@@@D&summ2=m&), a bill that brought on sweeping socialized changes to health care. He didn't yell, YOU LIE, to President Bush when Mr. Bush called himself a capitalist.

Also, Mr. Joe Wilson apologized. He apologized -twice-. Not much of a staunch defender, eh? But oh we will see the t-shirts, I am sure. "YOU LIE!" all over the place; on the street, at town hall protests, at Glenn Beck book circles. It makes me sick. The shirt should read "Of course he lies!" or "They all lie!" or "What did you expect, an honest president?"

The truth is, kiddies, they all lie. Whether they have an R on their name or a D. Whether they look for sex in the boys bathroom at an airplane terminal or get it from secretaries in the oval office.

Where was the interjection when Bush said Iraq had WMDs? Where was the interjection when Obama claimed himself to be the anti-war candidate? The interjection didn't come until Obama simply said that rumors about illegal aliens (read:mexicans (because those are the only illegal ones)) getting coverage with the new bill are false.

So what? That's the least of my worries. In fact, hell, strip the whole damn bill down and make it so only illegal mexican aliens get healthcare, because we sure as hell owe it to them after wrecking their country in our crusade against non-FDA approved slow suicide substances. Wanna know why they keep jumping the border? Might have something to do with the mega-corporation sized drug cartels that murder, rape, and kidnap... and that wouldn't be possible if they'd just legalize weed. But I digress.

The republicans say they fear socialized health care. I say, when has our system of health care not been socialized? Medicare, medicaid, forced employer-provided insurance, big pharma approved substances, etc. etc. etc. Our current system is shitty, and the next system will be shitty, as any government solution will be. It will stagnate user-created business, it will slow down advancement, and it will ration goods.

Because health care, ladies and gentlemen, isn't a right. Rights are abstract things, like freedom. Health care is a good, like food. It is a limited resource, to. So having one entity control it (an entity with SUCH a good track record when it comes to preserving human life and happiness!) will cause automatic rationing. These are basic economic principles.

Unfortunately our health care has for so long been in the hands of a government backed big corporation paid for Ponzie scheme, painted as capitalism because we don't know the damned difference.

But what about the poor people who can't afford it! you cry. Altruism is the tried and true excuse for the expansion of the empire, but I will humor you. When I look at my last paycheck, I should have got a big whopping 400 some dollar check. However, after taxes (and a few other things), it was mangled down below 300. Now, obviously some things have to be paid for. But 1/4 of my paycheck was taken away. Maybe if I had a bit of that back I could ( drum roll please ) afford health care! Or maybe a pony. Because, by God, shouldn't it be my choice what I spend my money on?

Let's summarize. So you have an entity, a big unholy machine that eats babies and such, that takes away 1/4 of your money. Then, with regulations and bureaucracies and corporate insiders that give lots of nice money to congressmen, you have this entity fuck up the price of health care for everyone. Then you have this entity pretend we have a free market system (and people believe it because Olbermann said so). So we ask of this entity, of this unholy machine that eats babies and bombs brown people, save us from the free market! And this machine churns out a new system, a system in which they have given themselves even broader power over the well being of people, and in this system is a little loophole in which illegals might get a little bit of healthcare, and it is at this point that the rich, white, bomb-the-foreeener, faggots-will-burn-in-hell republican stands up and waves his finger saying, Mr. Obama, supreme chancellor of the Empire of Death, YOU LIE, for I have read your bill, and there is a chance that you might accidentally be helping a group of people!

FOR SHAME, Emperor. For shame.

/end rant