Sometimes Your Initial Thoughts Are Correct

Back when I was in the war(as some used to call being in the military back during 'Nam), I used to think and say that "Lifers" were only in the military because they were too dumb to make it on the outside in a real job in the real world.  After getting out and as I got older I mellowed a bit.  As I worked as a migrant aircraft mechanic with former military types, I began to rethink my opinion of "Lifers" and would alternate between calling them "Retired" and "Retarded Military".

Then yesterday a "Retarded Military" relative of mine forwarded me a disgusting e-mail trashing Gabrielle Giffords.  It accused her of dissing Gen. Petraeus during a congressional hearing.  About asking him why the Army wasn't doing more to reduce its carbon footprint in The War Against Terror.

At first it pissed me off that someone would be trashing someone that had been shot in the head during an assassination attempt.  I glanced at it and then hit delete.  Later I decided to check out this BULLSHIT.  In less than a minute, I found it to be PURE BULLSHIT.  First I googled her name.  In the e-mail it stated that this info was in the Wikipedia about her.  WRONG!!  Then I went to Snopes.com and typed in her name.  This was the only hit.  Turns out this was circulated during the last election campaign by her opponent.

In less than a minute I found the info to disprove the e-mail.  After thinking about it for a while, I replied to the e-mail.  I said, "You are a FUCKING IDIOT!!!"  I also mentioned it took me less than a minute to find out it was bullshit.

In the past I have included links to the info proving his bullshit wrong, but I no longer bother as he won't read it anyway.

As my title says, sometimes your initial thoughts are correct.  Most "Lifers" are too fucking dumb to pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions are printed on the heel.

I have asked this question a number of times and have yet to receive an answer.  "Why are those in the military and ex-military so Right-Wing when the Right-Wing doesn't give a shit about people, only property.??"  Could it be they really believe the FuckingRepublican propaganda about how they love the military when actually they love defense contractors and prove it everyday while fucking over the troops while rewarding the various defense contractors.

Why Aren't More People Pissed????

On the right is a chart from last year (click on it and click again to enlarge to be able to see it better) showing how the U.S. compares to other countries on healthcare.  On average we spend twice what other industrialized countries spend per capita.  The closest any of the countries listed here comes to our spending is Switzerland and theirs is only 2/3rds of ours.  That's not even taking in to account the millions of people in this country that don't have any healthcare coverage.  Now if we are spending twice as much and getting a helluva lot less, doesn't that strike you as a BAD DEAL????  We have a  lower life expectancy and a higher infant mortality rate, so we do lead in something, but it's not a good thing.  Seems to me someone is getting fucked on this deal and I would say it's all of us!!!

Now why would anyone fight to keep such a PISS-POOR system???  I can see the rich bastards being for it as they are for anything that makes them money by fucking over everybody else.  But why would Joe-Sixpack or Joe the Plumber be for this???  Would the Wal-Mart shoppers be happy if they were told, "You have to pay twice as much for this stuff as the rest of the world!!"  Hell No, they wouldn't, there'd be riots.  So why do these same people want to keep the old fucked-up system in place????  Is it because they have been sold a bill of goods, "We have the best healthcare in the world."  Fifteen years ago whenever some "DittoHead" would repeat that line of BULLSHIT, I'd say, "No, we have the most expensive healthcare in the world!!!"  While I like to say "I'm smarter than the average bear", I'm no fucking genius, and I figured it out a long time ago.  So why doesn't the rest of the country???

Could it be that most people that have insurance aren't paying the full fare???  Those that get insurance thru their jobs usually only pay part of the premium while the employer pays most of it.  And those without insurance believe the bullshit about how they can always go to the ER when truly sick or hurt.  The apartment manager here where I live told me he pays $800 a month for his medical insurance and another $800 for his adult daughter.  That's $9600 a year each.  Unless they have some kind of medical catastrophe,  there is no way someone would get that much medical treatment in a year.

Example: The Old Lady knew a couple who lived in Sweden.  The woman got breast cancer which metastasized and finally killed her.  My cousin got breast cancer which metastasized and finally killed her.  The difference; the woman in Sweden never had to worry about how to pay for her treatment, whereas my cousin had to ask friends and relatives to hold spaghetti dinners to try to pay for things like drugs for chemo and she had what some consider good medical insurance.

One thing that has me scratching my ass in bewilderment is my "retarded military" relative who has socialized healthcare(medical plan for retired military, VA and next year will be on Medicare) saying he wants to be in "control" of his healthcare and that's why he wants to see "Obamacare" repealed.