Soon the congress will begin to debate the future of public health for the people of the United States. The discussions will surely be long and trend setting for the role and the place of persons of all ages, conditions and heritage in our country. The American Association for Retired Persons is preparing itself for a serious defense of health care, but without massive support from all of us, it will be an up hill battle, even if the AARP does count of the solid support of leading congressional figures such as Dr. Ronald Paul (known as Rod among friends), Paul Ryan, and Steven King from Iowa. They, like so many smart tomatoes on the Republican vine, have always shown themselves to be knights in shinning armor to defend the created equal.
Obamacare was domed from the start. Mr. Obama was and is a fine person but frankly he will not go down in history as a productive leader. As with Woodrow. Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy (rarely known as James) and the little Bush, he tried hard but to please all is to alienate everybody.
In many countries today, our leaders try to justify cutting back after years of exuberance in spending. Here in Spain the center-left PSOE under the direction of Madame Díaz in Andalusia has adopted an extremely insidious road to cutting back on social benefits such as education and public health. As is common in her public posturing she never says Yes, nor does she so No. She always says the Opposite: could be, maybe and might too. In essence what she and her self-proclaimed socialist gang are doing is to whittle away, little by little, at the educational and public health systems they swear they are defending. Thusly, she doesn´t have to allocate funds for what is no longer available. Just imagine how such devious policies would outrage the Republican right-wingers! Spanish socialists are far more clever than our champions of special interests. For something like $20 a year we can join the AARP.
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