The best Health Care discussion so far
By Bill Moyers, not surprisingly. Sorry I couldn't embed it. Click the link to watch the video.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08142009/watch.html
And some links for those who care to learn more about health care reform.
http://factcheck.org/
http://www.kff.org/
And some quotes for those who don't watch the video:
"I'm okay with protest. Sometimes I wish I'd done more of it myself when I was young.
But it's hard to reason with someone who's packing a gun. That's why I found so menacing that photograph of the fellow standing outside President Obama's town hall meeting on health care in New Hampshire this week with a 9mm pistol strapped to his thigh and a sign quoting Thomas Jefferson on watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Knowing from his MySpace profile that he admires white supremacists, it made me queasy to see that man standing there, pistol at his side. Of course he's exercising his Second Amendment rights under the Constitution and he has a carry permit. But still�
The protesters I admire are those unarmed men and women who put themselves in danger for Civil Rights. And the Suffragettes, marching for the right to vote. And the veterans of the Bonus Army who camped out in Washington after the first World War when the government defaulted on its obligations to them. And those who spoke out against the Vietnam War. I've been haunted for years by the image of the pacifist who doused his clothing in kerosene and burned himself to death beneath Robert McNamara's Pentagon window in 1965, soon after I'd had a meeting in that very office. Some said he was delusional, but his wife said he was expressing "His concern over the great loss of life and human suffering caused by the war in Vietnam." Over the years I came to better understand the deeply moral grounding of his anguished martyrdom.
"The cries of tyranny, the analogies to Hitler on the signs and in postings on the internet. That's not conscience at work; it's the product of colicky, cranky unconscionable anger, fueled by lies."
"What happened is for a time the experts' agenda and the policy makers' agenda on Capitol Hill hijacked the public's agenda."
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/
And some links for those who care to learn more about health care reform.
http://factcheck.org/
And some quotes for those who don't watch the video:
"I'm okay with protest. Sometimes I wish I'd done more of it myself when I was young.
But it's hard to reason with someone who's packing a gun. That's why I found so menacing that photograph of the fellow standing outside President Obama's town hall meeting on health care in New Hampshire this week with a 9mm pistol strapped to his thigh and a sign quoting Thomas Jefferson on watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Knowing from his MySpace profile that he admires white supremacists, it made me queasy to see that man standing there, pistol at his side. Of course he's exercising his Second Amendment rights under the Constitution and he has a carry permit. But still�
The protesters I admire are those unarmed men and women who put themselves in danger for Civil Rights. And the Suffragettes, marching for the right to vote. And the veterans of the Bonus Army who camped out in Washington after the first World War when the government defaulted on its obligations to them. And those who spoke out against the Vietnam War. I've been haunted for years by the image of the pacifist who doused his clothing in kerosene and burned himself to death beneath Robert McNamara's Pentagon window in 1965, soon after I'd had a meeting in that very office. Some said he was delusional, but his wife said he was expressing "His concern over the great loss of life and human suffering caused by the war in Vietnam." Over the years I came to better understand the deeply moral grounding of his anguished martyrdom.
"The cries of tyranny, the analogies to Hitler on the signs and in postings on the internet. That's not conscience at work; it's the product of colicky, cranky unconscionable anger, fueled by lies."
"What happened is for a time the experts' agenda and the policy makers' agenda on Capitol Hill hijacked the public's agenda."
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