While I'm not interested in writing a long rant on the recent debate regarding "healthcare reform," I do feel compelled to make an observation.
On our way back from Texas, Daniel and I were in the breakfast room of our hotel, where the television happened to be tuned to one of the news channels. One of the many political pundits--this one undoubtedly a member of the Republican party--spoke of the outrage of the healthcare reform bill being passed "against the will of the people" and how truly awful the financial burden will be upon American taxpayers.
How fascinating it is to me that this solemn concern for the American taxpayer didn't ever rear its noble head during the eight years that the last Republican president squandered trillions of dollars on the Iraq war. Money is still being funneled into that venture, and I have no confidence whatsoever it will ever succeed, even if there were clear definitions of what success would constitute.
As far as I'm concerned, our expenditure in the "war" in Iraq is totally and completely wasted, and I'm talking about lives lost as well as money.
Where is the outrage about that?
I shall suspend my opinion regarding the healthcare reform bill until I am more informed about its provisions. And I certainly have concerns about my tax dollars are spent and squandered.
But I wonder why Republicans take issue with using American tax dollars to take care of our own country's citizens when they didn't have any problem at all with the tax dollars poured with hurricane force, for eight years and counting, into another country with the supposed purpose of caring for people who don't pay taxes in the United States and never will.
To put it more succinctly, this righteous indignation Republicans are sporting about the cost of the healthcare reform bill, especially after what this nation endured under their party's "leadership" for eight years, runs both thin and false.
Copyright 2010 Melissa LaFavers