Where’s the Moral Outrage?
January 31st, 2006 | by Paul Merda |For all of the talk of “pro-life” people in this country I find it striking that they are the very ones who will gladly cut aid to the poorest among us. While the wealthy get to keep their tax breaks and go spend it on a new vacation home or a yacht, there is a mother out there who will forgo medical care for herself and her children because she just can’t afford it under the new budget. Let’s also not forget that the new budget also gives 22 Billion….with a B…. to the….drum roll please….who’s the lucky winner in screw the taxpayer today…… the Health Insurance Industry. The same guys who pass on double digit rate increases and whose profits are quite safe. Yup, pro-life people are only pro-life until the baby passes out the birth canal, then, screw-em if the don’t have any money…. How do they handle the cognitive dissonance? The Washinton Post has more.
4 Responses to “Where’s the Moral Outrage?”
By Anonymous on Jan 31, 2006 | Reply
The suffering needs to expand greatly, then more people will wake up to the GOP butchers. One way to the people to realize that there government does not care for them, is they need to suffer at the polices their government set for them. With current GOP polices, its only a matter of time till more citzens are pushed into poverty, and government aid gets cut for the poor, then the poor will vote. The poor people greatly outnumber the relgious rapture is imminent people. If the vote, things will change, if they chose to revolt things will change. The worst person to fight, is someone who has nothing to lose.
By jerseymcjones on Jan 31, 2006 | Reply
Anonymous has a point - two of them actually. One: Yes, Americans tend only to react to crisis. Two: As in Iraq, those with the least to lose are those with the most to gain.
We may have to hit bottom before we can start rising again…
JMJ
By ken grandlund on Jan 31, 2006 | Reply
Cognitive dissonance presupposes cognitive and rational thought. Those things are sorely missing not only in our political class, but also among our countrymen who are too busy paying attention to American Idol to sense that things are really amiss.
They may slowly be waking up, but the evidence of that is still shaky. Let’s hope that the American people will revolt at the polls and get the country back on track, and that the so-called compassionate conservatives and religious followers will find some humanity and humility soon.
By LiberPaul on Jan 31, 2006 | Reply
Yes Indeed Ken. I can’t even convince my wife to pay attention, how are we supposed to wake the rest of them up…