...Because It's Full Of Blood
Look, I'll be honest with you. If you're going to make a post saying how completely wrong I am and how much I stink and how much you hate bleeding heart liberals, then I'd suggest you'd bugger off. You're just wasting your time and mine. I will call this the disclaimer and rule one of this post...got nothing insightful to say, don't say it.
Bleeding heart liberal. Pinko commie.
Let's face it, fellow liberals, the rhetoric just mounts, doesn't it? Everything we say and do boils down to the fact that we show (too much) compassion to our fellow man. That we believe that this contrivance called government (which, in my humble opinion is a human way to try to achieve utopia) is for helping and aiding the people. And let's face it, not just the American people, although we are the wealthest, richest countries in the world, everyone on Earth. We want things to be a little bit more fair for everyone who struggles.
Apparently that's entirely too much to ask.
In the past week, we've heard blogs beating down old people, 'enemy combatants' (which is the loosest term I've ever heard of,) and people in Asia we've never, ever met. I haven't seen Jerry Falwell blame the tsumani on heathens and homosexuals yet, but t'm awaiting it with baited breath. Let's cover these issues one at a time, shall we?
Social Security: Not that I profess to be an expert or anything, but hasn't the handwriting been on the wall for some time now? What were the previous adminstrations (Clinton included) doing about this? Phasing it out is unfair to those who've paid for it, and singularly cruel for those who need it. And the fact remains that the good ol' days of the kids raising Mom and Dad...well, they might be tougher than they were. Fact is, those kids are trying to raise kids on their own from what budget they can get, and maybe, just maybe save for that vacation or retirement themselves. While some people welcome back their parents with open arms, others find it burdensome and they can't afford it. Social Security helps defray the cost of even the predictabilty of getting old, and it also covers an uncertain world. While no one's arguing it needs reform, privatizing it sounds risky in a uncertain, rather gloomy recent market. There has to be a clever way to make FDR stop spinning in his grave and make the adjustments needed so the next generation can have what the last did, and not throw our system to the wolves.
Tsunami relief: Dear God. You'd think we were talking about giving money to terrorists, not people who lost their homes the way some of you go on, and on and on. People died. Lots of them. While I don't think we should give money to everyone who, say lost their lives in a fire that happened in China on one city block, (although, if a sizable amount of people lost their lives, a comment at the very least would be suitable from our leader) we should at least open our wallets and hearts a little. If that means the only way we end up giving is as a nation, so be it. Either way, we're giving the money, can't we just agree that's enough and perhaps the price you pay for maybe the world getting a little bit more global then it was 50 years ago? Is that an acceptable compromise for everyone?
Enemy Combatants (Gitmo): .......Did I hear correctly? Did I hear Americans saying torture was acceptable on anyone? I understand saying stupid things out of anger, but you need to let the macho go, folks. You're beginning to scare me. Here's at least one good reason why we shouldn't use torture at the Bay (Article's old, bear with me): Link Now...if that man gets home, what is he going to think of our...good citizenship if he was tortured? I for one, don't subscribe to the liberal idea we asked for 9/11, but I do think we need to consider for a minute what we do and what message we send out when do stuff like torture. And it's not like we can say..."We're sorry for the psychological and physical and maybe sexual pain and humiliation we caused. Here, take a lollipop. It'll be better soon." Anyone who says terrorists deserve it because they are terrorists is speaking from wrath...espically since we can't prove everyone in Gitmo's a terrorist.
I'm confused...almost stunned, acutally. Are we all not human beings with the same organs? Don't we have all the same rights as men and women? Is this truly, "All men are created equal?" or is it a sham of sorts to make us feel better. My heart bleeds...because it's full of the blood that makes me human. Does yours?
Bleeding In The Name of America (Metaphorically), The wolf/dragon and AWM,
Sol