Watching Health Care make its way through the system

I have always been a political junky.  Started at a very young age as we spoke about world politics around the kitchen table growing up.  The downside of that is that my brother, when he was 7, basically decided what was the point of going to school  since WWIII was going to break out any day.  Needless to say, my Mom put a stop to the intensity of the conversations. 

 As I grew older, I got involved on a whole other level.  I was able to meet many of the politicans and soon began to raise money for the ones that I believed in.  I never used any of them for political favors, except once to help get the women who works for us and is truly part of our family, get her daughter out of Brazil.  That was worth all the political capital I had.  I have always been more interested in having conversations about each of their views on the issues facing our country.  Call me crazy but I felt that I was making the world a better place by helping smart politicians get into office.

Fast forward to the present.  We are living in a very transparent world.  We can read on Twitter, watch on HuffPo, see on UTube, the realities of how bills are passed in both the Senate and the House.  It isn’t like I didn't know how it worked but I am now watching in live time with absolute disdain the disgusting realities of how the health care bill attempts to get passed.  It has put such a bad taste in my mouth that I have lost all faith in the process.

 From a birds eye view, it appears that getting anything passed is just about placating favors.  Making sure the large corporations, the biggest banks, the lobbyists and the promises made get into the bill.  It isn’t about what is right for this country.  It is just about making sure that your ass is covered for the big guns that gave you money.  I figure we are all getting screwed in the process.  I have absolute no trust that the bill is good for the people but am sure it is good for the people who cobbled it together.  It feels full of decisions based on what back room deals are being done with lobbyists but not we get to see it up front, close and personal.  It is all and all just disgusting.

Call me naïve but it seems that as more and more Americans watch the reality show of what happens in DC that as a group we are losing a sense of faith in the Government that supposedly holds us together.  I feel as if we are lost at sea with a bunch of pirates guiding the ship. 

I am a fan of Obama and he has certainly walked into a shit show that was left after 8 years but what happened to the buck stops here? 

Funny enough, Chuck Schumer called me yesterday.  Unfortunately I wasn’t home so he left the message with Josh but guaranteed he called to ask for cash.  I called him back but we haven’t connected.  I can hardly wait to give him an earful…and of course, not a god damn dime.