Isn’t it Ironic?!
A top 10 list of things that drive me crazy about my fellow Americans.
1.) Why are so many people up in arms about spending $1T over the next ten years, with the worst estimate showing that $239B will end up directly affecting the deficit, yet there has been no outcry about the $1T the war in Iraq is costing us, all of it going directly to the deficit? Think about it… Health care reform has the ability to improve the lives of over 40M Americans, while the war in Iraq has improved no-ones life.
2.) Why do the people that believe that a woman cannot be trusted to make sound decisions with her own body, believe that huge multi-national corporations, on which the fabric of the economy is woven, should not be subject to regulation?
3.) Why is it OK for the govt. to place wiretaps on American citizens, yet when they try to provide health care to those that truly need it people rail against the idea of big govt. interfering in their lives?
4.) How is a govt. that tells you who you can and cannot marry not invading our private lives?
5.) Why is it that in the states where the party of “family values” (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas)hold court, they have the highest rates of divorce in the country, while the lands of the ungodly liberals (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont) they have the lowest. In fact, the states of the bible belt have a divorce rate that is nearly 50% higher than the national average.
6.) Why would people so firm on morals allow a man with three divorces and an addiction to pain pills (Rush Limbaugh) be their voice? Why would they be so willing to believe every word he utters?
7.) Why are the people that are calling health care reform socialism, so worried about protecting their right to receive Social Security amd Medicare?
8.) Why do so many people who were born to weath and privilege believe that those who were born much less fortunate than they are just lazy and trying to steal from them?
9.) Why is it that the people who are so sure that the govt. is lying to them about health care reform, don’t care about the lies that were told to build support for the war in Iraq?
10.) Why do some people believe that the second amendment to the Bill of Rights is absolute (the right to bear arms), but the rest of the document is negotiable?
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It sounds like you would make fine Australian and neighbour.
I may be ready to move after all this craziness!!!