Scooter Chronicles

I have started reading a blog called “Electronic Cerebrectomy” written by someone using the name Samurai Frog. I heard about it from Roger. Now, just a warning before you go running to check it out. I would rate the blog “R”. And some of the posts are highly geared towards men. But don’t let the reading of this blog be the reason to judge either I or Roger.

Mr. Frog is very up front about his support of Obama and his policies and/or stances on issues. In a recent POST he talks about socialism and how the word is being used to describe the Democratic candidate, and it’s being used as a evil word. The opening of the post really jumped out at me.

With all of the cries of “socialism” going around, I sure wish the right wing could explain to people what their version of socialism actually is. They never explain it, and their supporters only know that they’re supposed to foam at the mouth whenever anyone mentions the word. The fact is, there are countries in the world who have democratic socialism as a basic, and those people are laughing at the inability of the United States to take care of its own (I know, because I get emails from those countries telling me just that).

Give me a break.

Now, I am not advocating socialism by posting this. Just pointing to someone that puts a few things into perspective, even if rather blunt.

The key point to me is in bold. Again, I am not saying that we need to help everyone in our country. There is a difference between helping and giving hand-outs. But we certainly should think about them first. Why give millions/billions to companies that are going bankrupt after bad business practices, while there are people who are working their butts off at a job they can’t get away from because they don’t have the money to educate themselves, and then can’t afford health care on top of that? And what about their children’s health and education?

We need new priorities. And I know it won’t happen overnight. But it has to start somewhere.