On Healthcare, Let's Search For Real Solutions.
Let's search for real solutions
By Emma McElvaney Talbott
Freedom of speech is a wonderful right and one that most of us cherish. Everybody has this right, even when it makes us look fruitcake nutty. Such is the behavior and speech of certain fringe groups and individual citizens who keep complaining and grumbling and moaning and finding fault and picking at everything, yet offer no real solutions to the problems we face as a nation. They are starting to wear my nerves thin. Nothing, but nothing is right for them. Sadly, grumbling and ranting about everything have become a way of life. They're worse than a young child who is sleepy and needs a nap. A toy, a hug, not even a bowl of ice cream can satisfy a sleepy child. They must have a nap. Eventually they conk out, and I wish you complainers would do the same.
Citizens who are reasonable and want to pull together to build a more perfect union are fed up with all of your complaints without any suggestions to solve pressing issues. We've grown weary of indulging you and have had enough. You need a nap. And when you wake up, get out of the bed on the right side and come to the table to reason with others. You need not agree with others at the table but bring some fresh ideas. The country is waiting to see what you have to offer in place of what you are so against — or is all the complaining just a way to vent your frustration over a sick economy? Why not use some of that energy coming up with ideas that can help us move toward a better health care system and a stronger economy?
The Constitution protects your right to grumble endlessly, but just know that you are looking more and more ridiculous, uninformed and weak-minded. And the more you are unreasonable, the harder you are making it on everybody — including your unreasonable self. The mind can be fickle, so perhaps you've already forgotten the negative results and fallout of poor decisions and inept leadership of the past.
Do you not realize that these are truly serious issues that we must claw our way out of — together? This is not the theater of pretend. The need to overhaul the health care system is urgent and while there are aspects of the plan that need revision, we would be wise not to abandon the effort. Seek accurate information and stop believing lies and distortions that are circulating to undermine your well-being. Keep listening to talking heads who are undermining our need for an improved health system and the day will come when you'll long for improved health services for you and your family. Those bombastic talking heads' only goal is to rile you up, spread fear and draw huge paychecks while the health care system remains a mess, you wait in the unemployment line and the economy languishes. Most of them are not economists and have no training in law or government affairs, and yet they rant, rave and pontificate. Listen closely and you will not hear them offer any real solutions to help us solve our collective problems.
Now while you're settling down and taking a nap, I hope you have dreams that inform you. Maybe you'll dream about the most fundamental government structures. There are three branches of government — not four, meaning the talking heads that keep you in a tizzy. The judicial branch is in place to interpret and uphold the Constitution and apply the laws fairly. The legislative branch is made up of 100 senators and 435 representatives that we send to Washington to make the laws and look out for their constituents back home. Many of them need a refresher course in why they were elected, certainly not to serve as pawns to lobbyists, some of whom will sell their own mothers. And finally, the executive branch, headed by the fairly elected President Obama. It is alarming that more than 70 percent of Americans can't name the three branches of government, nor do they understand that this system is designed to allow the branches to check and balance each other.
And speaking of Obama, all of you who are fussing and raising hell every time he opens his mouth, well, you need to go take a nap. He is the POTUS and he's going to remain President of the United States for the next four years and maybe four more after that. Stop being sore losers because a majority of citizens refused to allow an incoherent, blank-minded woman to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. And if you are a part of the percentage of Americans who are bent out of shape because he's black, then shame on you. Will he get everything right? Of course not. Is he perfect? No one is, but he's doing a commendable job under the most adverse circumstances. And as far as you “birthers” are concerned, you are a joke, you have no merit and are looking more foolish by the day. No amount of proof of Obama's birth is enough for you.
Just understand that your current behavior shows that you are on auto-drive, unable or unwilling to use your own brain and are the victims of pawns who are out to keep everything the same — inadequate health care for millions and larger profits for the insurance companies.
When the deal is done and we've gotten through this difficult period together, will you be standing on the right side of history? Or will you be like a certain governor of Alabama who rolled into the church in his wheelchair crying and asking for forgiveness for having stood on the wrong side of history?
For once, think for yourself. Turn off the noise of the talking heads, read and evaluate, learn about the structure of government and how it is designed to work for all the people. Bring your ideas to the table so that when you look back on your own legacy, you won't have to be ashamed that you were part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
Emma McElvaney Talbott, a free-lance writer and retired educator in Louisville, is a member of The Courier-Journal's Point Taken blog.
By Emma McElvaney Talbott
Freedom of speech is a wonderful right and one that most of us cherish. Everybody has this right, even when it makes us look fruitcake nutty. Such is the behavior and speech of certain fringe groups and individual citizens who keep complaining and grumbling and moaning and finding fault and picking at everything, yet offer no real solutions to the problems we face as a nation. They are starting to wear my nerves thin. Nothing, but nothing is right for them. Sadly, grumbling and ranting about everything have become a way of life. They're worse than a young child who is sleepy and needs a nap. A toy, a hug, not even a bowl of ice cream can satisfy a sleepy child. They must have a nap. Eventually they conk out, and I wish you complainers would do the same.
Citizens who are reasonable and want to pull together to build a more perfect union are fed up with all of your complaints without any suggestions to solve pressing issues. We've grown weary of indulging you and have had enough. You need a nap. And when you wake up, get out of the bed on the right side and come to the table to reason with others. You need not agree with others at the table but bring some fresh ideas. The country is waiting to see what you have to offer in place of what you are so against — or is all the complaining just a way to vent your frustration over a sick economy? Why not use some of that energy coming up with ideas that can help us move toward a better health care system and a stronger economy?
The Constitution protects your right to grumble endlessly, but just know that you are looking more and more ridiculous, uninformed and weak-minded. And the more you are unreasonable, the harder you are making it on everybody — including your unreasonable self. The mind can be fickle, so perhaps you've already forgotten the negative results and fallout of poor decisions and inept leadership of the past.
Do you not realize that these are truly serious issues that we must claw our way out of — together? This is not the theater of pretend. The need to overhaul the health care system is urgent and while there are aspects of the plan that need revision, we would be wise not to abandon the effort. Seek accurate information and stop believing lies and distortions that are circulating to undermine your well-being. Keep listening to talking heads who are undermining our need for an improved health system and the day will come when you'll long for improved health services for you and your family. Those bombastic talking heads' only goal is to rile you up, spread fear and draw huge paychecks while the health care system remains a mess, you wait in the unemployment line and the economy languishes. Most of them are not economists and have no training in law or government affairs, and yet they rant, rave and pontificate. Listen closely and you will not hear them offer any real solutions to help us solve our collective problems.
Now while you're settling down and taking a nap, I hope you have dreams that inform you. Maybe you'll dream about the most fundamental government structures. There are three branches of government — not four, meaning the talking heads that keep you in a tizzy. The judicial branch is in place to interpret and uphold the Constitution and apply the laws fairly. The legislative branch is made up of 100 senators and 435 representatives that we send to Washington to make the laws and look out for their constituents back home. Many of them need a refresher course in why they were elected, certainly not to serve as pawns to lobbyists, some of whom will sell their own mothers. And finally, the executive branch, headed by the fairly elected President Obama. It is alarming that more than 70 percent of Americans can't name the three branches of government, nor do they understand that this system is designed to allow the branches to check and balance each other.
And speaking of Obama, all of you who are fussing and raising hell every time he opens his mouth, well, you need to go take a nap. He is the POTUS and he's going to remain President of the United States for the next four years and maybe four more after that. Stop being sore losers because a majority of citizens refused to allow an incoherent, blank-minded woman to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. And if you are a part of the percentage of Americans who are bent out of shape because he's black, then shame on you. Will he get everything right? Of course not. Is he perfect? No one is, but he's doing a commendable job under the most adverse circumstances. And as far as you “birthers” are concerned, you are a joke, you have no merit and are looking more foolish by the day. No amount of proof of Obama's birth is enough for you.
Just understand that your current behavior shows that you are on auto-drive, unable or unwilling to use your own brain and are the victims of pawns who are out to keep everything the same — inadequate health care for millions and larger profits for the insurance companies.
When the deal is done and we've gotten through this difficult period together, will you be standing on the right side of history? Or will you be like a certain governor of Alabama who rolled into the church in his wheelchair crying and asking for forgiveness for having stood on the wrong side of history?
For once, think for yourself. Turn off the noise of the talking heads, read and evaluate, learn about the structure of government and how it is designed to work for all the people. Bring your ideas to the table so that when you look back on your own legacy, you won't have to be ashamed that you were part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
Emma McElvaney Talbott, a free-lance writer and retired educator in Louisville, is a member of The Courier-Journal's Point Taken blog.
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