Let’s start with repealing the vote for independence in 1776. Where would we be today? What about repealing the Constitution? Do we really need all those laws that protect “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?” What about the simplest of traffic regulations, stop on red, go on green! Let’s replace this with something else, maybe stop on red, go on blue. Does it really make a difference? Yes. Why?
If one political party attempts to change what another political party has accomplished without giving that political party‘s initiatives a chance to succeed, nothing will ever get done. Moreover, if you change it because one group does not like it, the other group will spin its wheels trying to change it back.That’s called gridlock.
This past week, the United States House of Representatives, under the now majority party (Republican) voted to repeal the Health Care Reform Bill (America‘s Health Care Law) for the citizens they purport to represent. The bill was duly passed by the 111th Congress and signed into law by our president.
Now they want to replace this bill with what? Unregulated insurance companies (skyrocketing medical insurance premiums would really hit the moon). Reduced life-saving medical procedures (instead of by-pass surgery, take a few extra aspirins). Remove your 19-year-old child from your employer’s medical insurance plan and let their own job cover them. (Oh that’s right, there are no jobs).
This was a blatant and failed attempt to redo, what was needed to done, at this time and at this place in history (having tried to do it for the past 60 years) for all of the right reasons. The end result, when you get through all of the political dances, political rhetoric, political grandstanding, is the political reality. The health care system was sick and dying and it needed to be resuscitated, revived and reborn, not repealed. Why not recall Congress?
Repel the words of destruction, damage, disgrace, difference, defer and replace them with restructure, repair, reverence, resemblance, reschedule. Regrets “I had a few", (Frank Sinatra). Instead of war, choose peace. Redefine PC to read, political civility. Rebuild America. Rebuild jobs. Restart, reorganize, recycle, rejoice and remember. Reload, crosshairs, targeting voters are killing words, (with all due respect and sincere prayers for all of the Tucson, Arizona shooting victims.)
