Politics are something that I'm going to try and not talk about on this page. I am by no means a political commentator and this is by no means a political site. I'm just an angry, rant-prone, omnicidal, nihilistic misanthrope. I am, however, gonna say something about politics now.
Everyone, everywhere is yelling back and forth like chimps who've recently suffered sever blunt trauma about all kinds of issues but the one that has me the most miffed at the moment is the health care debate. Personally, I think it's ridiculous that a country that touts its self as the leader of the free world and the most powerful country in the world can't provide affordable health care to anyone who wants it, but that's just me. If you disagree you are entitled to your own opinion despite how stupid it may be. That being said I am pleased that, at least, politicians agree that we need to do SOMETHING. Unfortunately that's about all they can agree on. As such we have politicians screaming like they're all getting prince alberts at a political convention. So, in other words, everything just normal. What I don't get is why we don't just try something.
What I'm talking about kiddies is pragmatism. In a nutshell, toss together a bill that looks like it might work, pass it, if it works keep it, if it doesn't pitch/gut/castrate it and try again with another bill. Keep going on in a trial and error fashion until we get something that works just right. In my opinion a good bill should have more scribbles, correction fluid, post-its, tape, and notes jotted in the corners than you'd find in a moron's rough draft for a term paper on ethics or the equally useless fields of metaphysics and watching paint dry. Just keep trying new stuff until something works instead of acting like everything's do or die. If you bollocks up a ham sandwich by putting on too much/little mustard do you stop making sandwiches or do you put less/more mustard on next time? The same bloody concept applies, just replace ham sandwich with health care and mustard with taxes/regulations/bureaucracies/abortions/etc (yes, I just successfully made a metaphor involving a deli sandwich and a political hot-button issue, be impressed).
So, in closing, instead of screaming like rabid howler monkeys why don't we just try SOMETHING..?
