Inauguration Excess while world suffers

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This trip down memory lane leaves something out: the suffering in Haiti.
The ceaseless whiners that want to run down American traditions on some new specious pretext just make me want to ukeright:

Why in 2005 cannot we just be happy over the continued existence of the republic and its institutions after an election and let the carping cease for a day? (answer: Americans view politics as entertainment, "Journalism in Tennessee" still lives!)

 

The republic has long celebrated its Inauguratons though, and there is some real history behind some of them. For example, when General Jackson was sworn in, it was the result of a campaign by his supporters to end voting by freeholders only, those whose owned land that was paid for. He was the leader in a prior close election, the House gave the victory to #4 place finisher if I recall correctly, and his Inaugural was the victory of the common man being able to vote. Washington was scandalized at Old Hickory's inaugural because his supporters were common people who just hopped onto the furniture such as upholstered chairs, to get a better look at their champion as he took the prize for all of them. The upper class considered the south to be populated with muddy tobacco chewing rednecks with no class, and believed Washington had been invaded by the herd of the unthinking followers of their leader.

Some things never change.

 

Children do not get denied medical care, everyone else ends up footing the bill after we detirmine that the parents can't pay. Some decry the lack of insurance but I submit that the insurance itself is the cause of most of the misery. If health insurance were outlawed and everyone had to foot the bill the costs for medical care would again be comparable to that of getting the dog sewn up. Face it, you can afford the medical care out of pocket for your pet but the cost of medical insurance is killing off economic growth and I'll tell you why. It gives an incentive for people to overuse the system, but the worst are the medicaid people, they pay absolutely nothing in a deductible or copay and I know one who actually goes to the emergency room for over the counter pain relivers. I know a couple who summon an ambulance one a month at least. If they paid so much as a 10 dollar bill out of what they get the next month, the rising demand for medical care would reverse and the costs would start to come down.

I knew a doc we retired 20 years ago well into his 80's, he is gone now, but he would take payment for services before WWII with chickens even!

Docs used to live with the middle class back in the 50's, health insurance drove up the demand and the price for their services, so it costs out the wazoo now.

Think about it, a vet can sew up my dog for far less than what an MD would charge.

As far as the homeless, let me tell you, THEY ALL GET A CHECK! Armies of social workers are out searching for a new client to give a check to and make them a case to keep that job they have. They live under a bridge because they want to.

Ever consider that we have millions of illegal immigrants in this nation but they don't live under the bridge?

 

Heck, they don't spend enough. Do you know how much gets spent on the Superbowl? The crowd attending the event dumps a ton of money into the host city, entertainers provide an ever longer and more tilliating show, and the television ad take is breathtaking, its so large that new ads get rolled out for the Superbowl. I bet the total spending for ads, entertainers, salaries of players, take on the game, and all that memorabilia easily exceeds the paltry sum to celebrate the mechanics of our Republic as it celebrates its continued existence.

 

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As far as the "citizens struggling to make ends meet" - would it suprise you to know that the economy is doing better today than it did during Clinton's second term? Check on some numbers for yourself. You can start with uneployment rates.
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The average rate of growth under Ronald Reagan was twentyfive percent higher than under Bill Clinton. I well recall how "Reaganomics" was used by Dan Rather as a slur until the tax cuts kicked in Jan/1983 and ended the recession and the use of "Reaganomics" as a newscasters expression.

No matter what year it is, most folks seem not to know that our armed forces BLEED every year to keep us free from harm. People die in operational and training accidents, from aquired sickness. Reserve forces have fatal accidents every year just going to annual training. Yes, our armed services are bleeding and for the betterment of the world.

Bush has a vision, a vision that implanted elected governments will change the culture that gives root to murderous gangs like Al Quada. That elected governments will challenge despots and that when people taste the freedoms they should have it undermines the despots.

Will it work? I do not know, many think that the peoples of the Middle East are basically too primitive to ever have a stable series of elected governments with power changes. But we must try.

God Bless our Republic.
Pray for our leaders and our troops.