Thursday, August 27, 2009

Which Side Are You On?...Day 26

Attention literalists: This video of Teddy Kennedy does not specifically discuss health care reform, but it does hit the very real issue of class inequality and the way in which the haves are dismissive of the have-nots.

I don't really know any haves, if you consider people like Rick Scott, who puts millions of his own money into the fight against health care reform. And, my continuing amazement is that while very few others know any people like him either, and have little or no chance of becoming like him, many of these same people want to fight for his intersts which are aligned against their interests.

Is it a belief that somehow, if we let the richest have free rein, there will be "More pie for me"? They fail to realize they don't even have a fork.

1 comment:

The New Albanian said...

In the rest of the USA, the "haves" dictate what happens.

In New Albany, the "wannabeens" dictate what doesn't happen.

I await the day when this brightest of councilmen, and really the only hope for coherence on a council gone amok, finally figures this out.

Anyone know if any other council person has taken a public position on health care reform? John deserves credit for doing so.

But ...