America: Loving it and trusting it two different things
In the musical “Oliver” Fagin, one of the characters, sings a song, “I’m reviewing the situation” wherein he looks at a problem he has from different points of views. With the thrust of that song in mind, I would like to look at my feelings regarding the Healthcare Reform Bill from another point of view. That is, what I think is the point of view of the people disrupting the Town Hall Meetings.
If you have never been in a classroom that erupts due to the fact the students think the teacher is unfair about something, I beg of you to take my word it is not pleasant. The students going crazy is a polite understatement. They are truly and sincerely angry as hell and they hold nothing back -nothing, you hear- letting you know exactly how they feel. From the “A” student to the already disruptive student who just came back from his fourth suspension of the school year for fighting, “… and it’s only the middle of October” you murmur to yourself, you have a problem!
It is my opinion, the “disrupters” at Town Hall Meetings know America will do anything to gain control of a country for financial reasons. On the contemporary level, they know about Iraq for its oil, desires to take over Iran for the same reason. Trying to conquer Afghanistan to take over the drug trade and nefarious workings with the Columbian and Mexican drug cartel. This is on the contemporary level excluding the workings of the *Hawaiian Pineapple Company and the rubber plantations in Brazil and Liberia, the Vietnam and Korean wars lining the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex.
And there is the looting of our treasury with no one being held accountable, the trashing of our constitution with little more than a yawn and with talk about detention camps being prepared here in America for Americans as part of Homeland Security is public knowledge in some circles. To be sure, there are people who may not articulate their feelings very well but that does not in any way negate a situation wherein they feel something is not right. When people have feelings of being duped, manipulated, bamboozled and otherwise pushed around, I repeat, there is a problem. These people will laugh in your face when you tell them you have decided to do something nice for them; something that will help them; something for their own good; unselfish you want to give them a gift; “Trust me!” you say. We are witnessing their reactions to these “benevolent” overtures at our Town Hall Meetings. Rolling over playing dead in not their style. They did that during the last administration to their peril. I guess that is why so many of us are confused. In any case, they do love America but trusting it is another can of worms.
A basic tenet of teaching: Go from the known to the unknown. If health care is to be changed for the good of the many, start building their trust on Medicare. Medicare for all! Who in America does not know the benefits of being on Medicare? I feel the situation can be turned around. It may be late but not too late for positives to inject themselves into the fray. Most people like to be positive, have positive thoughts and participate in positive issues.
At this point, however, egg droppings have to be wiped and cleaned off faces, foot-print damages to asses have to be attended to and generous heapings of crow ingested in communal settings have to be encouraged. The man said, “I never (ever) told you the road would be easy….”
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. Rachel is a saint! She also does not mind working hard. (Smile)
*Historically, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company had a hand in the hostile overthrow of Hawaii's last queen, Lili?uokalani, and the establishment of Hawai?i as a U.S. territory. Sanford Dole, the cousin of James Dole, was briefly president of the Republic of Hawai?i in the years immediately following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, in 1893. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Food_Company
If you have never been in a classroom that erupts due to the fact the students think the teacher is unfair about something, I beg of you to take my word it is not pleasant. The students going crazy is a polite understatement. They are truly and sincerely angry as hell and they hold nothing back -nothing, you hear- letting you know exactly how they feel. From the “A” student to the already disruptive student who just came back from his fourth suspension of the school year for fighting, “… and it’s only the middle of October” you murmur to yourself, you have a problem!
It is my opinion, the “disrupters” at Town Hall Meetings know America will do anything to gain control of a country for financial reasons. On the contemporary level, they know about Iraq for its oil, desires to take over Iran for the same reason. Trying to conquer Afghanistan to take over the drug trade and nefarious workings with the Columbian and Mexican drug cartel. This is on the contemporary level excluding the workings of the *Hawaiian Pineapple Company and the rubber plantations in Brazil and Liberia, the Vietnam and Korean wars lining the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex.
And there is the looting of our treasury with no one being held accountable, the trashing of our constitution with little more than a yawn and with talk about detention camps being prepared here in America for Americans as part of Homeland Security is public knowledge in some circles. To be sure, there are people who may not articulate their feelings very well but that does not in any way negate a situation wherein they feel something is not right. When people have feelings of being duped, manipulated, bamboozled and otherwise pushed around, I repeat, there is a problem. These people will laugh in your face when you tell them you have decided to do something nice for them; something that will help them; something for their own good; unselfish you want to give them a gift; “Trust me!” you say. We are witnessing their reactions to these “benevolent” overtures at our Town Hall Meetings. Rolling over playing dead in not their style. They did that during the last administration to their peril. I guess that is why so many of us are confused. In any case, they do love America but trusting it is another can of worms.
A basic tenet of teaching: Go from the known to the unknown. If health care is to be changed for the good of the many, start building their trust on Medicare. Medicare for all! Who in America does not know the benefits of being on Medicare? I feel the situation can be turned around. It may be late but not too late for positives to inject themselves into the fray. Most people like to be positive, have positive thoughts and participate in positive issues.
At this point, however, egg droppings have to be wiped and cleaned off faces, foot-print damages to asses have to be attended to and generous heapings of crow ingested in communal settings have to be encouraged. The man said, “I never (ever) told you the road would be easy….”
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. Rachel is a saint! She also does not mind working hard. (Smile)
*Historically, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company had a hand in the hostile overthrow of Hawaii's last queen, Lili?uokalani, and the establishment of Hawai?i as a U.S. territory. Sanford Dole, the cousin of James Dole, was briefly president of the Republic of Hawai?i in the years immediately following the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, in 1893. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dole_Food_Company
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