“A River Runs Through It”
Greetings and salutations from the sand, sun and surf of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and the great island of Nantucket! Great to be with you on this Thursday morning here in Osterville, a day with quite a lot of moisture in the air, as the hills and dales, beaches and bogs are covered in a thick foggy grip, obscuring vision and creating that ghostly look that one can only really get on Cape Cod, with “the old world shadows hanging heavy in the air…” I wonder what Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and George Washington would have thought about the special election that occurred Tuesday night in the state of New York, where Kathy Hochul, a long shot democrat, took out the long standing republican reign and as such, acted as a real referendum on Paul, “I told you to call me Bronco”, Ryan’s plan to destroy medicare by turning it into a measly voucher program, where you give our “greatest generation”, 15,000 dollars worth of vouchers to go out into the wolves den that IS private FOR PROFIT insurance companies that make up a monopoly on health care delivery in this nation, rationing care while demanding more and more premium, to pay for the over bloated salaries of it’s CEO’s, most of which do not deserve more than eight dollars an hour, yes, “empowering”, as Paul put it, seniors to go out there and purchase junk insurance policies that will deny coverage and act as a death panel to every senior out there who were all safe and sound with the system that was put in place by the late, great President Lyndon B. Johnson, who, in 1965 put pen to paper and made Medicare the law of the land, stating, “that no longer will seniors be left out in the cold,” which is exactly what the draconian Ryan bill would have done. Nice try congressman, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool the real American people, especially seniors who once changed your diapers. Where’s the LOVE congressman? Where’s the honor in dehumanizing grandma and grandpa? You are a disgrace for crying out to the only “media” you’ve got, FOX, or fixed news, that WE, the liberal media, “demagogued” medicare, “by scaring seniors”, what, with the add of you, Paul Ryan, taking little old grandma for a ride in a wheel chair, up the mountain, only to push her out of her chair and into the abyss, effectively ending her life, is that what disturbed you congressman? If you are that dim, I feel sorry for you, however, I have the sneaking suspicion that you are not, and therefore, I ask where is your heart, where is your intention, where is your soul in relation to the shadow you carry around with you? Who is winning the battle? I can assure you that Adams, Washington, and Franklin, not to mention Jefferson, Paine, and Lafayette, would look you dead in the eyes and tell you that you and your greedy brethren are wrong and are sell outs of the highest order. You are selling the real America (Democracy–of “WE the people”, not “we” the corporations) and it’s people, not to mention it’s environment, down the river, a river you have allowed your buddies to pollute to the point of no return. This latest bait and switch with the “American people”, this “pathway to poverty”, I mean “prosperity”, you just lost in the Senate by a 57-40 vote, is a disgrace and you know it… I mean come on, enough with all the bull$hit rhetoric about the “American people” that you claim to know and love so much, always assume to speak for and somehow know, intuitively I guess, know exactly what they need, want, demand, thereby putting you in the unique position of helping them, helping them–especially the ones’ who demand our highest respect and adoration, our senior citizens (a respect that native American Indians still give their elders)–off a cliff, sending them into an abyss that could be a fate worse than death, all by taking away their safety net of Medicare, a program that they don’t have to worry about, nor should future seniors have to worry about either. It is bad enough we still have private insurance in this country, a country that would do a whole lot better with Medicare for all, as they have in just about every progressive, industrialized nation on planet earth, countries that are passing us by, educationally, technologically, and economically. A program that they don’t have to suffer through the Madison Avenue fun house, premiering the most recent corrupt smoke and mirror show, geared, by the insurance industry, a den of thieves on par with the oil and gas industry, to confuse seniors, who are so vulnerable, thus, making HUGE PROFITS while offering nothing in the way of real HEALTH CARE. This is the GOD’S honest TRUTH. This idea of killing medicare is insane and will not stand. The 26th district of New York proved that Tuesday beyond a shadow of a doubt, and will be the marking of the turning of the tide, once again, this time, back towards the TRUTH, which will bring forth new growth and prosperity, as the river carries out the garbage and cleanses itself back to it’s original form. Have a nice day folks and don’t take any more of those gosh darn wooden nickles you may be tempted to glean from the likes of FOX NEWS, like a chalupa from Taco Bell, it sounds like a good idea at the time, but a half hour later, you feel as though you want to die. Please say a little prayer, should you wish, to the people of the heart land, especially those folks in Joplin, Missouri, the heart break is so deep, GOD be with them. PRESERVE THE WILDERNESS! Peace~M
