maybe i just haven't been paying enough attention, but i can't recall hearing anyone comparing obama's response to the haiti earthquake to bush and katrina. i know they're different circumstances, but it seems like we as a country are seriously gearing up to save haiti. that's all well and good, and i'm sure in hindsight a few years from now (read: 2012 election cycle) obama will be the great compassionate one. and even i'm not cruel enough to say that the haitians should suck it up and pull themselves through it. but it seems to verge on overkill compared to the way that we (as a country) geared up for and responded to katrina. i saw some headline talking about his winning streak in congress about getting laws passed that he personally got involved with, but i'll reserve judgment until i see how health care ends up.
it may surprise you to learn that working in retail, i don't pay for (and can't afford) health insurance. i'm lucky enough to be fairly resilient when it comes to getting sick or injured, so i've gotten through for the last five years without it. in that span, the worst i've had was a case of strep (which if you worked with me back then, you know what kind of shape i was in). but since a prescription of penicillin cleared that right up, i'll claim that i've done alright without insurance in my lifetime.
so maybe i am tempting fate, but i really believe that i don't want health care coverage forced on me. the most asinine part of it is charging everyone if they don't have insurance. why kick a person when they're down, especially if they can't afford the ice pack for afterwards? i don't normally get all political, but that just seems like you're begging not to be re-elected.
anyway, whatever. at least i'm blogging again!
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