I have written about health care before but over the past couple of months the whole dialog has turned into bizzaro land from the wacko right. Watching the people yelling “We Want Our Country Back!” while holding up posters with Obama with a Hitler’s mustache is disgraceful. These people have no ability to think for themselves or understand the difference between socialism, communism and fascism and are the same people who take as gospel the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Rush Limbaugh has been saying on every show he has done that the “New Deal is Dead” and then plays a song that makes fun of homeless people. This at the same time he signed a $400 million contract last year. Now here is a guy who really cares about the very people to whom he preaches his hate speech. Many of those listeners who don’t trust the government have no trouble collecting government funded social security, Medicare or unemployment insurance after their jobs were shipped to China. Keep reading →
