Just Because We Won't Let You Watch Doesn't Mean It's Secret
Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
by Michael Ramzy
delusionthread.com
With the carnage in Haiti, it's hard to remember Washington is still Washington. Hard to remember there are some things which change, and some things which cannot change, regardless of circumstance.
Democrats are refusing to open to the public the negotiations on how the government is going to change the delivery of health care, specifically how it is going to (eventually) be affordable to the government. If you haven't been paying attention, this is absolutely contrary to the 'transparancy' and 'change' we the American people were promised. I truly do not think Mr. Obama lied to us, he just boasted when he should have (as he does now, I am sure) known better. He should, however, admit his mistake and his bravado. Change, especially political change, does not and cannot happen overnight.
The difference this time is our President telling us, promising us, things will be different. He convinced a great many of us things will really be different. Ms. Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is still convinced, saying this just the other day: "There has never been a more open process for any legislation".
Now that is a lie, but I digress.
Secret negotiations should be something of an anachronism, especially in this twitter-driven, YouTube-remote-control-everyone-has-a-camera culture. Perhaps that is why these (and many others, do not fool yourselves) negotiations are hidden from view, so that the public cannot see the actual process; the deal-making, deal-breaking, bribes and lies which go into making a bill. Perhaps it is like making sausage or hamburgers: you don't really want to know how it's made, you just want it on your plate with a garnish.
The difference is this: politics generally and making bills specifically affect the entire populace of a governed country, and our political process is founded on freedom. These men and women in Washington have our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in their hands. We the American people should perhaps take the time to re-think the stewardship of those inalienable rights.
'When in the course of human events . . ."
Remember?
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Yeah Mike "We the people" are the ones our founding fathers wrote the constitution for. But the politicians have all the control over us. We are either too blind or too busy to see the truth.Absolutely correct, David. Thanks for reminding us all of that. I was thinking the other day about the revolution and how most Americans didn't really go for it at first. I mean, they did in one way want the oppression (or depotism, as the founders said) to end. Yet in another way, they (like us, perhaps) were too busy farming and running their own lives.Thanks as always for your input.
Another interesting read--have not kept up with the intricacies of health care. Great line:"you don't really want to know how it's made, you just want it on your plate with a garnish." Not just on the plate but with a garnish, huh?--that should be a quotable quote in some book...Yes, the garnish was a special touch (that's a garnish, get it?). But it's true that most of us don't know and probably don't care how things are done in Washington, we just want them done. The problem is that things aren't getting done, and when we ask why we're given the run-around. Thanks as always, sir.
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