What we need right now is a clear message to the people of this country. This message must be read in every newspaper, heard on every radio, seen on every television… I want *everyone* to *remember*, why they *need* us! — V For Vendetta

I’m refraining from watching the President and his staff take a victory lap around the cable news networks tonight.  To be honest, I don’t have the time or energy.  Everything that this administration has done has been a ‘crisis’, including the healthcare legislation and its implementation.  Every issue must be taken care of RIGHT NOW! because it’s IMPORTANT and our betters are JUST LOOKING OUT FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE!.  Anyone who stands in their way or even asks what all the rush is about is branded as unfeeling, unthinking, and unhelpful.  When things go wrong, we are told that it’s insignificant or someone else’s fault.  Any change, whether it’s what was promised or not, is touted as the best thing that could ever happen, with kudos all around to the administration’s allies.

The ACA is a horrible law, passed in the middle of the night.  It has been implemented with one eye on the polls and one hand on the panic button.  Rather than making healthcare and the healthcare industry better, it has allowed millions of leaches to suck just a little more blood from the host.*  No-one is saving a dime on healthcare.  This program isn’t going to add one doctor to the already overstressed system, but it’s adding a whole bunch of people who think that once they have a piece of paper that says they are covered, then they magically can get treatment.

Welfare, and Obamacare is nothing but the old welfare pig with a new shade of lipstick, should be for only the truly poor and it should be temporary.  Obamacare does nothing but create a new class of people who will permanently suckle at the sow’s teat, while the rest of us get to feed her our life’s blood.

So, forgive me if I spare myself the experience of the President and his ilk talking about what an accomplishment it is to get  7 million people to create credentials on a web site and look at the programs it (sometimes) offers.  We haven’t been told for sure how many of them actually bought something, and of those, how many have paid a penny to pay for their newfound public largesse.

Honestly, I’m too tired from getting off my ass for the last quarter century and making sure that my family has food, clothing, shelter, and health insurance to give a damn right now.

*I know that’s judgemental and harsh, but let me make this clear:  If you signed up for the expanded Medicaid program or accepted a subsidy for your Obamacare insurance policy, you are a leach on the ass of the American people.  You should be ashamed of yourself.    If my saying that offends or insults you, too bad.  Leave.

Look I probably should have told you this before but you see… well… insanity runs in my family… It practically gallops. — Arsenic and Old Lace

For a huge portion of my life, I lived with the certainty that I, and by extension my family, was as screwed up as a football bat and everyone else lived perfectly normal lives.  One of the ways that I know I’ve matured is that I’ve come to realize that everyone’s messed up, and nobody had the Ward and June Cleaver experience.  Everyone has their drama, their setbacks, their weird family quirks.  Most of them are just quirks, some are dangerous pathologies.  But we all have them.  Knowing that your family isn’t as strange as you think they are will allow you to realize that you are not as strange as you think.  In fact, it’s the people who are perfectly normal that are bizarre.