Speaking of Sick
Mar 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm by Susie
I just got off the phone with a friend. The 39-year-old son of her best friend just died this weekend. “I was there when he was born,” she said. “This is awful.”
He was moving some furniture and started to get chest pains. They don’t have health insurance, so he went to bed, hoping he’d feel better in the morning. He never woke up.
Is this really what we think of people, that we can toss them away so casually? Is this who we are?
Does anyone really believe we can go on like this?
Sure. John McCain and the party he’s trying to lead.
Did you see “60 Minutes” last night, specifically the segment about the NGO designed to provide health care to Third World people who couldn’t easily get it, but who now spend 40% of their time working in the United States?
Hell yes, there are a lot of people who think we can go on like this. There’re called Republicans.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Condolences to the family.
As your other commenters have already noted, yes, the Republicans think we can and should go on like this, that the state of the union is sound.
I think they think the game is up, that their various depredations have well and truly shit the bed and America’s not gonna get out of this alive, and now they’re basically just running out the clock and stealing the last few bits of silverware. I don’t necessarily agree, after all they’ve always been the Party of Fear ™ and so they’re bound to take the most pessimistic view of things. But it will be the end if whoever wins in November doesn’t investigate everything that went down in the Bush/Cheney regime and roll it all back and aggressively prosecute real malfeasance. I agree that Obama hasn’t shown the stones to do that, but I’m not convinced that Clinton will either.
About your issues with SG, I appreciate that reporting stories like this one can just tear your heart out, but part of why I love this blog is that you don’t pretend everything’s just a statistic, but you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences.
“you remind us all that political decisions have living and breathing consequences.”
Amen. I didn’t comment the other day when you posted your query, but Michael just nailed my thoughts.