Here’s your weekly quick look at a few developing stories in the political arena:
On Monday night, CNN held a Tea Party Republican Debate and one of the highlights was this big #WTF moment that came when the crowd cheered when Ron Paul was asked: if a sick person with no insurance coverage goes to the hospital should society just let him die?
Seriously, when did our society become so selfish? Would those people who cheered not want help if they couldn’t afford insurance and they were in that position? I guarantee you if they would be looking for “handouts’ and “help” if they couldn’t afford insurance. Are we not civilized? I think that a civilized society should look after its people who can’t take care of themselves in situations like that, life or death. These people want programs that help themselves like Social Security, but when it comes to helping others, they can go to hell. Why and when did we become so selfish?
Young Invincibles, a DC based group that focuses on Health Care reform from a youth perspective, is confident that the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act will ultimately be upheld
Read their release after the jump,
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An article in today’s NYTimes revealed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been working with the dairy industry to increase cheese sales. You know, the USDA. The dudes who brought us the food pyramid and all those patronizing ads telling us not to drink so much soda.
So this government department is spending money both on convincing people to eat less cheese and also to eat more of it; they recently issued a pamphlet telling readers to “Ask for whole wheat crust and half the cheese” but are also working with Dominos to increase the amount of cheese on the pizzas they serve in order to increase sales.
Surreal, right? But this sort of thing is a common result of the government’s interest in both sustaining the economy and keeping citizens healthy. Government subsidies for corn farming, for instance, have led to massive overproduction of corn that leads to the proliferation of cheap, corn-based crap. And then they put out ads telling people not to drink so much high-fructose corn syrup.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement that basically endorses female genital mutilation; suggesting the law should “enable pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ritual nick” such as “pricking or incising the clitoral skin to satisfy cultural requirements.”
I could rant about this, but I think my friend Rebecca’s photographic response when she was sent the link via chat sums up my feelings quite nicely:
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