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But it's not about the waiting. It's not about that at all. Some of us are just sick and damned tired of the suffering.
As it is right now, the government's priority seems to be, "What can we do that will have the broadest positive effect?"
That sounds fine and good until you realize that the people suffering the MOST are not included in that category. Broad does not equal deep. The most pain is felt from the people are fall outside of the current fix-it zone. People who are living with institutional racism and the devastation that it brings to innocent lives. People who are barred from the deathbeds of their beloved partners and losing their homes after tragedies because our federal government can't be bothered to stop discrimination against gay people. People who are suffering from excruciating pain, and dying in agony, because the assholes in charge of our government can't get over Reefer Madness and loosen restrictions on medical marijuana and opiate pain medications. People who are dying violently every single day because nobody's willing to spend the political capital to say NO MORE BOMBS. People who are sitting at home right here in America, waiting to die, because they don't have health insurance and can't afford their medication, and our government keeps dicking them around on Social Security and Medicaid red tape.
It's not just Obama. It's the entire fucking mess of them up there in Washington. If doctors and nurses triaged patients the way that these jokers are "triaging" issues, they'd be sued into oblivion and stripped of their licenses. They're treating colds and broken fingers when people are bleeding to death in the next room--but ya know, the ones who colds and broken fingers have MONEY and voting power and they're hella upset. Then they turn their attention to one dying patient--the economy--and we're all supposed to jump all over ourselves with fucking glee. Yay! They're doing something productive! Woohoo! And never mind the fact that a lot of these issues can be fixed at the SAME TIME as the economy's being fixed. No, we shouldn't speak of that.
And if anyone raises a voice about the bleeding, dying people being ignored, well THOSE people are just concern-troll, Limbaugh-esque, PUMA, Hater, Freeper, Purist Nitwits. Would you rather have no help at all? Would you rather have McCain/Palin?
My Mom was released from the hospital today, guys. She had a heart attack a few days ago--her third--and until yesterday they were talking major bypass surgery because her heart is in such bad shape right now. Then they realized that she wasn't insured, and all that talk died away overnight. They stabilized her with a couple of stents and sent her home with prescriptions she can't afford to have filled. Who cares if she dies next week? That's all that they were legally required to do for a patient with no insurance--stabilize and send them on their way. She's back at home with her oxygen tank, afraid to move around much, and we're scrambling to try and figure out how we can get her the help she needs *right now* before her medicine runs out and she has another--perhaps her last--heart attack. I am furious. I am bleeding inside over it. I have been crying off and on all damned day.
It took thirty-odd years to break everything, and I don't deny that it'll take thirty-odd years or longer to fix everything. But is it asking too much to expect them to fix the worst, most painful, dire problems first? The economy surely counts as one dire thing, but is that really all that can be done? One thing at a time?
It's stupid to blame it all on Obama, and I don't. It's equally stupid to claim that our government--ALL of it--is only capable of dealing with one crisis at a time. I don't buy it for a second, and neither should any of you. I hear a lot of excuses and accusations and name-calling...PUMA, Purist, Troll, Hater, Freeper, Shit-Stirrer. I don't hear much in the way of support. I don't hear, "Hey, maybe we SHOULD start raising some hell. An awful lot of innocent people are suffering badly, and our government could make a real difference in that suffering without too much effort if we could just let them know how important it is." It's not about OBAMA. It's about the federal government machine that he happens to be the President of at the moment. I don't even care about who promised what and when, I just want somebody to give my Mom some damned medicine and medical care before she fucking DIES.
But like some other lovely poster said today: we're just a bunch of selfish, whiny, "special interests." We're dragging everybody else down. We're damaging The Party.
Insult to injury, folks. Insult to injury. And how much more injury can any of us be reasonably expected to stand? How much more is MY MOTHER expected to stand? It is too much to bear sometimes. And to come here, the only safe place that I and many other HAVE, just to be told that we need to settle down and wait...?
Some of us don't have time to wait much longer.
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