An Historic Day

Political material ahead.....


I can't believe it has been almost a year since I posted last. This entry will be short though. Today our government is voting on health care reform. It is an historic day. I wish I could post this on my facebook status, but I can't because of the upset responses this would receive. I think it is sad that I would get that response and here is why.

I am not a democrat or a republican as I have said, but I am in favor of health care reform.

This is what I am dying to say. It is short and simple.
Many clamored that it was the end of America and the road to ruin in 1935 with Social Security. I wasn't. They said the same in 1965 with Medicare. It wasn't. They said the same in 1993 with Bill Clinton's budget proposal. It wasn't. In fact, we all know many people (a lot who are against health care reform) who benefit from Social Security and Medicare or Medicaid. I am one who benefits from Medicaid for Gracie. Look what that horrible budget proposal of Clinton's did for our economy. We had the first budget surplus in many years.

That is my point. America will still be here tomorrow. We will still be free. We will still love our country and life will go on and 34 million more Americans will have health care soon than do now. Some members of our government will lose their seats at the next election because of their vote today. Just like Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (look her up and read her story on wiki) did. But they are heroes in my eyes.

God Bless America.