Equating ObamaCare with socialism is like equating your degree in film theory with an education.

I've been sitting here waiting for the Sexy Blob That Drives Me Places to get up and take me to my doctor's appointment. Armed with a spare hard drive--my main one, which contains all of my poetry & photography, decided to gasp its final beeps of death last night--and nothing better to do, I came across this article. It absolutely boggles the mind, the fact that people actually equate a mandatory buy-in with socialism. Canadians must look at us as though through a funhouse mirror that makes you look like you have fewer teeth and a lower IQ.

Here's the thing: I don't think social healthcare, in this era of our nation's history, would be a good idea. Once our country stabilizes to a point where...

1. we're not spending more on defense than entire nations combined. (No, we don't have "more to worry about" than those entire nations; bitch, our soil has seen blood only once in war, and it was the war we had with ourselves.)
2. my generation, the generation perpetually told to "study something if you're interested in it," without any care in the world of whether or not it'll yield a job, finally yields jobs.
3. an unemployed person receiving cash assistance doesn't have an easier, less-costly time seeing a doctor than a low-income employee.

... then I might think it'd be about the time for all of us to start receiving healthcare. The point is, we live in a culture that thrives on laziness, shallow self-centeredness, and the "all for one" idea that merely by existing is a person entitled to a high quality of life.

     Louisville, Kentucky is like the epicenter for that train of thought. It is where that train of thought stops for maintenance. Louisville is where Yum! Corporations--the people who brought you Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and the corporate movement for food stamps to work at fast-food restaurants--and Papa John's Pizza are based out of. Louisville is where poor, shitty people are encouraged to remain poor & shitty, so that the shareholders selling them lousy goods can continue selling them those lousy goods. Louisville is where "socialism" takes its most evil form: corporate socialism.

Here's a copy & paste of the comment I left in the article about Papa John and his fight "against" "socialism." This issue seems to be bringing out the stupid in a lot of people--anyone who equates ObamaCare with socialism--but, moreover, really reflects upon Louisville's overall lousy culture, and why I'm so happy to not be raising my baby there.

I used to work for a corporate-owned store in Louisville. Most franchises are owned by private companies and do not offer health insurance; however, the corporate stores in Louisville are run by the Papa John's corporation itself, and -do- offer coverage. I use the term "coverage" to loosely describe a series of packages you can purchase that squeeze far more money out of a minimum-wage income than it's worth. Yes, it was my choice to not pay for health insurance, but I was choosing between losing a fourth of my $600-a-month income or being saddled with debt in the event of an emergency.
I only got health insurance (state-issued Medicare) for the first time since leaving home after I got pregnant. The letter I received basically stated that, since I was employed (then by PJ's), I shouldn't need to rely on the state for health insurance; however, that I was eligible for coverage through my pregnancy. If I had been unemployed (read: already receiving cash assistance), I would've qualified for full Medicare benefits, even after my pregnancy.

Have any of you guys been to Louisville? Place sucks, man. The neighborhood I worked at, in particular, was this teeming cesspool of broken homes & cultures: every month on the first of the month, when people got their cash assistance checks in--hey, did you know that one in five Kentuckians is on cash assistance?--we would have four hundred orders, many of which made by people who believed we were the stupidest people on the face of the Earth for working for wage instead of applying for assistance. These were the people in Louisville who had healthcare; I, the employee serving their food, paid for with taxpayer money, was not one of them.

You guys, I'm not a "socialist." I'm a firm believer in the idea that hard work, diligence, and modest values--read: the difference between a practical two-year trade degree and a sophisticated four-year liberal arts degree--should be rewarded. If you believe Papa John would look like a "socialist" for paying the extra to ensure his employees have healthcare, then you're highly mistaken. His current system--profiting off of cash assistance, trying to keep his wage costs as low as possible-- is socialism; it's corporate socialism. What we presently have is socialism, and the amount of work you put in is directly proportional to the benefits you -won't- receive. If you think John Schnatter paying an extra fifteen cents per pie would brand him a "socialist," then I implore you head to Louisville and see where good ol' fashioned "capitalism" has gotten them.

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