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Originally Posted by Idyllic
I don't know what it is like in Canada, but it apparently isn't all that great here, congratulations on your fantastic country seriously, I am jealous of your free health care system and how proud you all are of it, I'm just not trusting our government to get it right, and the way they have pushed this bill doesn't help with that trust. Maybe I should try it, Canada that is.
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Pretty sure you can't complain that just a little more socialism in American politics is going to "destroy the American Way" and simultaneously be jealous of the much more socialist Canada. I think you'd be surprised at just how many of your fellow Americans would also welcome even
more socialism in our policy. Regardless of what Sarah Palin may think, they are real Americans too, and their votes count just as much as yours when they vote for their representatives... who then vote for things like health care reform.
It's really alright to be sad that the government is not going in the direction you'd like. It's alright to think this is bad for the country (though it'd be nice if facts, not emotion were given as explanations when asked why). But, seriously, it's time to accept that there are a LOT of people out there who think otherwise, and part of living in a Democratic Republic - or any society for that matter - is accepting that, you know what, sometimes those "other people" are going to get what they want and you're not going to get what you want. All the while, the country will go on and life will go on. It's all part of
behaving like a grown-up.