montecristo

I've done this for a certain reason. When I was in Navy boot camp I quickly learned that the whole thing was a game and the only rule was that I lose. If I appeared to be scrambling then they wouldn't ride me so hard. So when a petty officer needed a form to fill out when a recruit was injured and yelled at me because he didn't already have one, I found it for him ASAP. I also ran to the compartment with a blank copy of the same form the next time a recruit was injured. The petty officer there wondered what the hell I was doing because bringing him that form was not my job, but I had already been blamed for failing to provide the form so there I was. He asked me if I was trying to cover my ass, I told him that I was and he told me to go on with what I had been doing.

I enjoy thinking that the people in power are evil trolls bent on enslaving us and controlling everything. I don't objectively believe that to be true. I think they only want to take actions that will have that effect because they don't know how a better way to do their job and avoid being blamed for the problems that will come along no matter what is done. I would argue that the best course of action in that situation would be to eliminate such an evil job, for this I am viewed as insane. I do not understand this world.

I don't know if it's to grab more power or wealth - unless, I guess, the CDC wants to get back funding that's been cut for years and hyped the epidemic as a means to do that. I do think that they were very worried at the beginning that we would as a world be unprepared the more virulent and deadly form of the swine flu. I'm glad this one turned out to be mild. I already have the government for my health care, as a Navy dependent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the system has to be worked. But I'm glad I have it.

It could be better though.

You know what blows my mind about this whole public health care option fracas is that the left favors it ABOVE non-profit health care co-ops. Granted, they want to start the co-ops with public money, which leads me to believe that it could become a defacto public option. It just really drives it home that these guys are all about controlling other people's lives and not about actually accomplishing the goal. I think pretty much everyone knows that the "public option" will be the launching pad for universal government-run health care.

I just get really frustrated with idiots who want to exchange one shitty bureaucracy for another. They really have no idea WTF they're talking about.