As the day wore on, those words kept finding me, I could not get them out of my mind. Right now, we as a nation are divided. Whichever side you hail from, if you don't see this, then perhaps you should go to the eye doctor for a check up. I myself am a Moderate, I feel any extreme can be dangerous. But, we the American people are so polarized right now and to a degree I blame our rapid transference of information. And I say "information" not knowledge, perhaps if it was a transference of knowledge we would all be in a better place. The fact is you have to wade through the muck to find the truth. But people don't want to do that.....they will just take any pundit's word for it. If I hear someone ranting and raving about some outlandish claim (from the right or the left), I will research it to see if it's true or not, I urge others to do so as well.
One of the most recent is that Healthcare reform is unconstitutional. When first hearing this, my first thought was, "I don't think it is". But, I wasn't sure, so I found a copy of the constitution with all attached articles and proceeded to study it.....and do you know what I found? Nothing that can repeal Healthcare Reform. So, I now have a constitution app for my iPod Touch that has the entire document and all articles. If someone tells me it's unconstitutional, I will hand them my iPod and say, "here, you show me where." Not trying to be a smart-ass, I just want to prove a point. If you are going to make a statement, you damn sure better be able to back it up if I'm around.
And either way you feel about the healthcare debate, I say let's see where this thing takes us, it might surprise many people out there. We need to all come back together and look at what has been said and done in the last three weeks. Spitting acid at each other isn't going to solve any of our countries problems. What has to happen in this country for us to throw away this toxic "ultra-partisanship"? I hope nothing too drastic....
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