I spend a little time here and there in the DA political forum. I generally only voice opinions on things that concern me, things that I've spend more than a little time thinking about.

I see a number of people that post something on every subject that comes up, quite a few shallow opinions, more than a few that include the type of humor that goes beyond humor, humor as a means of saying something you have guilty feelings about coming right out saying.

I was thinking today about how many of these people seem to genericise their unproven thinking into every imaginable direction. Throwing off stray thoughts with no actual thinking going into their replies.

It ocurred to me that its a lot like the 50's pulp fiction writers who used to write horror, science fiction, crime stories, etc. with a cookie cutter approach that allowed them to make a living while being paid pennies for each word they wrote.

I've been seeing our government in that same style of operation. Always making the supposed sacrifice for other countries due to our oh so outrageous fortune as having everything we could ask for. Thats a cookie cutter approach too. These politicians never actually sacrifice anything of their own, nor do they sacrifice much of what those official 85% or so of our employed population already have. Actually the 15% unemployment only counts people that have become unemployed within the last calander year. The numbers of those of us that have become or always been "unemployable" are never computed. Its alot like an ostrich hiding it's head in the sand, though the sand in this case is the unemployment office. So much easier that way.

Its kind of like the unemployment insurance that your creditors want you to sign up for, when you read the fine print your alternate style of working 2 or 3 part time jobs will never really qualify you for the benefits they want to sell. They won't tell you that until you have been denied though. I've never been caught in the scam since I read the fine print and asked questions. They never liked the questions though, but, why would then when I denied them more income with no possibility of ever being able to ever be paid a "claim"

Its easy for them to act as though all of us in the so called land of plenty have, but, very little thought goes into their decisions. Its just a lot of cookies cut with pre made dies repeated endlessly.

This whole health care thing has steamrolled into a new type of Federalism. Its unfortunate though that most opponents are so flabbergasted by it that they have to resort to cookie cutter opposition. Name calling and fear mongering. They mostly do have a stake in keeping their insurance however, so they won't make any real complaints in an adult fashion. They would only expose their own benefit from insurance to risk. The idea of being forced to pay for insurance on a job that barely pays more than minimum wage is ludicrious. Looking at the insurance my wife's company will sell her is like reading fantasy. The premiums add up to $5,000 per year. Thats about 1/3 of her earnings. Then there is a yearly $1500 copay required before the insurance company will pay so much as a dime. If you get past that point in some single year of unimaginable luck you may still be responsible for up to $19,000 in single person expenses.

Thats not insurance for people, that only insures that insurance companies become fat and rich.

I haven't spent more than $300 a year for health in forever. Some years my spending is $0.00. I personally think that insurance should be outlawed or treated like a gambling addiction. It really seems like one of those schemes where you make people think that they are getting something for noting. More often than not all you get is nothing.

As an umemployed Mechanical Engineer with a mortgage in a NAFTA ravaged state nothing is all I see myself as having gotten for supporting Obama. He speaks real nice, but, since he got the job, hes become sold on the way it has always been done. Hes been sold so well that he has even decided to trade benefits for a few people into a bill for everyone but the rich. The rich don't need insurance, though its concievable that they use their insurance to pay some of their elective medical expenses.