a brief rant

I began a post this morning and failed miserably. I had intended to rant on the injustices around me--disappointing health care reform, the unfair balance of wealth and power in the U.S., property management companies with Fucked up fees and policies, societies failure to come to grips with the nations poor, etc...--but it came across as whinging. I don't want to be like that. People around me are dying and going cold and hungry and without a lot more than i have had to sacrifice our make do without. I am warm and fed and supported by family and friends. I have problems and anxieties and frustrations with our society and government and a lot of it stems from the human failure to empathise with the poor and powerless--the "have-nots". Briefly i don't think health care reform would be so lacking in its provision of coverage or the governments involvement if more men and women in the house and senate had seen their lives toppled because of unforeseeable health issues. When those issues come up they put families in a hole that is hard to climb out of. The insured mass of the U.S. isn't insured because they feel invincible or they don't want coverage. They are uninsured because health care is out of their reach. Too poor and uninformed to find state/government help or not poor enough. Ironic isn't it? This being the country that controls the majority of the worlds resources and wealth to have more people die due to lack of access to health care than any other developed nation in the world (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth).

I'm ranting. But, lets think about it, don't we have a responsibility to care for the needy, poor, and dis-valued elements of our society?