Thousands not too happy with “Obamacare”
“One nation under plunder,” “Obamacare makes me sick,” “Go Green Recycle Congress” and “I’m Not Your ATM” were just a few of the signs — and let’s not forget voices that chanted things like, “Enough, enough” and “We the People,” “You lie, you lie!” and my personal favorite, “Pelosi has to go” — at today’s protest that vehemently voiced some Americans’ dissatisfaction with Obama’s health care plan.
Thousands protested Obamacare.
According to AOL News, many of the protesters got the push for this movement from the recent tea parties held to discuss similar dissatisfaction, just a more generalized one in how the entire country is being run… Into the ground in my opinion.
Complaints heard were nothing out of the ordinary.
How can we afford this when our country’s more than $11 trillion in debt?
What about the elderly? I heard coverage for them isn’t going to stretch past a certain age. Who’s right is it to put worth on a human life based on age?
Why would I want to put the most important aspect of my life — my health — in the hand’s of someone else? Especially the government’s?
Aren’t there more important items to spend our money on right now? Granted, our current health care system isn’t the greatest, but no one’s dying in the streets because they can’t get health care.
And what about future generations? How will they afford to pay the debt this plan will incur?
All legitimate questions, I believe.
Something positive this protest has accomplished, no matter what side of the political fence you sit, is demonstrate the fact that some Americans do care about what goes on in this country and what policies are being implemented or trying to be implemented.
For a while there I was beginning to believe no one would stand up to this sickeningly sweet idea of butterflies and unicorns, this dream world idea, and a country that can live happily with the government paying for everything for its people. Does that mean we don’t have to work anymore too?
It’s about time people started to stand up for freedom.
Brittany @ September 12, 2009