The world is still spinning in the right direction, gravity holds our feet to the ground, and President Obama is our President for the next four years. To all of you who predicted four years ago that America as we know it was supposed to end sometime before November 6, 2012, you were wrong. Get over it.
We are still a Republic, we are still the greatest nation in the world, and we have the potential to be greater than greatest. We will become a nation of people who no longer have to worry about health insurance. All the dire predictions of doctors quitting, hospitals closing, and the government going broke by providing "free health care" (which they already do, by the way, for the poorest families with children) have been proven false. Doctors prefer people with health insurance. There is only so many Medicaid patients they can take before it becomes a negative on their balance sheet. Many patients have no idea what debt doctors carry on their backs, how much it cost them to reach their dream of becoming a doctor. They don't become doctors to get rich, they become doctors because they think they can make a difference in the world. That's it, plain and simple. Having health insurance will save people's lives. Preventative care is the answer to emergency care. Check back in twenty years and see if I am right.
Right wing Republicans are blaming the reelection of Obama on the moochers and the greedy who want free stuff from the government. Keep up that rhetoric and you might as well go jump off the "fiscal cliff." Lemmings do that sort of thing too. It's not just the poor who voted for Obama, it was the young, the old, the sane, the crazy, and everyone who got dizzy trying to keep up with Mitt Romney's changing views. Not to mention those of us who were insulted not only by his "47%" remarks, but every single bold face lie he told with a smirk on his face as if he was the only one in on the joke. It's time to push Romney into the past and face the problems of today.
The highest earners of this country can certainly pay more taxes. Many, many of them have no problem with that. Mitt Romney might, but he's in a class by himself, so he doesn't count. He has more fun hiding his money than actually paying taxes with it. I do too. I put a few bucks in a book for an emergency, keep my change in a leftover margarine container, and every now and then I check under the sofa cushions to see what's hiding in those money sucking pockets of pens, lost remotes and dog hair. It's not like Obama is asking higher earning Americans, himself included, to pay 90% of their earnings to the government, he's just asking them to pay a percentage equal or above a middle class family paying 35% of their $70,000 joint earning to Uncle Sam. I don't quite buy into the whole capital gains lower tax bracket either. The argument is that the capital gains have already been taxed before they were an actual capital gain. But if someone like me buys a new car, I have to pay sales tax with my money that has already been taxed by the Federal and State government. I have to pay federal and state taxes on the gas I put in that car that I have already paid on a Federal and State income tax. It's a tax merry go round. I can't complain, I spent thirty years being a tax collector. While I had to keep my tax gripes to myself, I certainly heard people and their tax gripes. It was generally more unpleasant than pleasant.
Let's wait and see what happens. Perhaps the fact that regardless of how much gridlock was caused in Congress buy doing everything in the Republicans power to make Barack Obama a one term president, it didn't work and it is no longer a valid excuse to do nothing. If they continue to do nothing, after 2014 they will have every opportunity to do nothing at all, but it will be on their dime, not ours. I would hope that some people in Congress can see the lesson that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie showed this country last week: He loved and cared about the people of his state more than he hated the President. He did the job he was elected to do and when the President asked what he needed, he told him honestly and thanked him. Yes, Governor Christie is a large man, but it's very clear that he has a larger heart. I dare you to tell me what is wrong with that.
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