Shut 'em all down

I've been quiet on the Shutdown subject, and while not prepared to jump in with both feet yet, I find that something has to be written down here.

In the eternal blame game going back and forth in Washington D.C. a gov't shutdown which impacts millions of Americans; that's the 800,000 furloughed gov't employees and the small businesses that they frequent, the Dentist or Doctor's appointment next week that they just canceled (not sure about that extra savings going to the much needed procedure, or next months mortgage/rent/groceries or light bill), point being that this shutdown affects so many more than just those 800,000.  Looking at it globally, it effects our entire Nation due to this inability to properly function as a Democratic Republic....a nation founded upon the principles of Freedom, Equality, Liberty, Happiness etc..etc..etc...we actually try to sell this stuff overseas, in old country nations and emerging nations - Hey, Look at us...Beacon of Light...Hope of the World.....Bumbling idiots of self-governance...

Yeah, held hostage because we don't think that our people deserve equal access to health care.  Now, I don't know enough about the Affordable Care Act, but I know that it ensures access to all, that it functions as a market-based exchange upon which competing insurance companies try and get your business - Uhmm...that sounds really familiar to me - almost like the market economy that drives our country, never really thought that was Socialist, but apparently this Health Care program is a Socialist program and will turn everyone in this country into some semblance of a utopian dream.

I just don't see it.

Apparently we are going to steal from Medicare/Medicaid to fund ObamaCare...which provides earlier access to preventative care, which likely results in increased savings down the road when Medicare kicks in for the aged, and seems to provide the same opportunities that one would have available under Medicaid.  Now recall that I have not done any research on this subject, so I've probably gotten a lot of it wrong, but if I got just one part right, it seems like we'd end up saving money in the long term.

This is about the long term folks!  This is about the security of our children and children's' children. If you haven't realized it yet, Health Care in this country, both private and publicly funded, is going to bankrupt us if we don't do something about it.

Standing around pointing fingers at the other party is not 'doing something about it'.  Jumping on every publicity strong bandstand to garner affection for your politics is not the way to go about it - the Republican Party looks like ID-TEN-TANGO-S running from one "Emergency" like Veterans at the WWII Memorial to funding VA Healthcare for disabled Vet's to funding FEMA in front of a pending Hurricane.  Let me tell you something that your pollsters are leaving out....it's starting to get pathetic. 

The business of government requires a budget.  A government and nation without a budget does not achieve any of it's objectives.....well, maybe this one does - however, it hasn't achieved an objective in more years that I can count, unless you call going to war an objective.

It is really, really sad to see this state of affairs that we have fallen too.  Time to reach down and pull ourselves up by the bootstraps again and get back to governing.