“Commemorative”

Putting Christina McAuliffe on a coin before Harriet Tubman is on the 20 dollar bill is nothing but a hate crime, and Trump should be the next astronaut for the challenger program.

Revisiting

I might share blog links soon, and I just want to repeat a solution idea I have mentioned before after many years of hoping the best for immigrants. It is similar to raids except I think people should find all the immigrants and print out an ID card for them, granting anyone easy instant citizenship.  And then, because there truly are problems with trafficking and abuse, the other task involves simply enforcing criminal law, which should be stricter against all abusers, rapists, and murderers, including Americans who are ruining lives as much as other bad people. There is a lot I don't know about what is happening all over our crisis-filled country, but I do think that simple concepts of welcoming people and protecting everyone from harmful abusers is in fact possible, as rightful moral things usually are. Also, has anyone thought of inviting Mexico to be part of the United States? It would be a nice gesture, considering everything Mexicans have done for our country.

recent consarns

Obviously I am slowing down with these mad blog posts, but I feel like mentioning two recent bothersome things. One is that I have gotten to a point where I really don't know what news stories are true, and don't have any news source that I trust in more than a partial way. People have been talking about this issue for a long time, but I did for a while feel like I could kind of get a picture of what's going on from skipping around and reading between the lines.  But honestly, now I go to sites and look through the headlines and genuinely don't know if there are any stories that I can believe. It could be paranoia or other mental problems, but I have a feeling that it is more likely that my mental problems are more of a result from wrongs like that and not the cause.

Then the other thing is something I have been meaning to mention for a long time, which is my disappointment that New York subways are not more accessible to disabled people and moms with strollers. I am confused about why a city as important as New York would not provide for people in that way, and honestly I thought that certain laws required that. I think that the Access-a-ride service is a pretty good step (get it, "step," like the hundreds of steps people have to carry strollers up with children in them who could get their face smashed if they are dropped?), but I think the disability van program is not the same as treating everyone with justice and service. And if a place as advanced or as potentially advanced as New York could have been won't do what is right, then I think that a lot of places and maybe the whole world is in a lot of trouble.

Ok I am remembering a third thing, which is just to make sure I say on this blog that I do think Trump is racist, and I also think he has a competence and sanity problem bad enough for immediate impeachment. I have thought so for a long time, even after holding out some very unpopular hope after decisively not voting for him.  The outrageous Harriet Tubman 20 dollar bill reversal was what really made me feel the urgent need to express my horror, but there has been a delay in me sharing my political views, and I am really sorry about all the reasons for that.  I mostly do what I can when I can, and I hope that everyone who has more official responsibility to intervene will succeed in preventing worse atrocities than what has already been happening.

next possible mad blog topics

are some children in fact being used as human shields in invasions disguised as migration, and then again as shields for political groups who are happy for the supposed leverage against people who did what they were supposed to

something suspicious going on with companies like twinkies and toys r us declaring bankruptcy and then coming back just a few years later with the same brand value

profit vs. gouging: productive commercial competition versus blocking resources to then charge people for access to basic supplies and services.

Neither Nor

In her book called Hunger, Roxanne Gay wrote about how she had to buy an extra seat on planes sometimes, but then the airline would want to let people put their stuff in her extra seat.  And she said it was like they wanted something both ways.  And I have noticed that a lot of injustice and mistreatment is exactly like that. When I was in college, my mom wanted me to get a job instead of doing volunteer and camp experiences, but then wanted to make me report my spending to her.  But I had my own money because I had had to work instead of doing the things I wanted to do. She could not have it both ways. But people do find a way to demand opposite things from people, and I think it is happening with a lot of our country’s problems.  A lot of people want to ignore things like immigrant needs and poverty and say that is the government’s job, but they also want to say that the government should be limited and not interfere and have any resources or power. The goal is to starve people out of the systems of food and health.  The insurance companies do it too, by wanting to collect premiums from everyone and cover health care for no one.  I mean why don’t they just come to our house with a gun and take our cash. When they do, I will do what I learned from the show called Electric Company when I was a kid.  There was a hold up and a muppet said to someone, “Your money or your life?” And the person said “I’ll take ‘your money’.”  And the bad muppet handed over the money.

only the messenger

   Well everyone, this is just a quick post about such a minor little change in the texting on my phone, which I am sure is just nothing to worry about, just like every other little advance that facebook and other technology does all the time, where they gain just a little bit more power over our actual socializing.  I noticed now that my friends can hit "like" on one of my texts.  Private texts, of course, but for how long?  I think the weird power plays of making everyone sign up for messenger, and then changing the way people select who they are going to send a message to have always had this hint of something that could happen some day, which is that facebook just decides to go ahead and make everyone's messages public instead of private.  no big deal, of course. When you are just trying to "change the world," you have to do stuff like that, don't you?  I think the threat is also there with google and google docs, and some people who think they might be some kind of deity are looking forward to someday letting everyone google through anyone's private and hopefully scandalous and even incriminating emails from the past thirty years.
   But I think that is when people will see why people sometimes have to use force and intervention to put a stop to oppressive and violating societal wrongs.  Hopefully once that happens, Iran will have stolen enough of our technology that we can reboot facebook and twitter with a little more consideration for people's boundaries.

More than a policy error

People have really gotten on my nerves lately with their self righteous shaming and blaming and quoting the Elie Wiesel silence quote after thirty years of squelching evangelicals but I am horrified about the Mexican children being separated from their parents and probably siblings with a strong likelihood of never being reunited and I do think that Trump should be impeached and along with others jailed for child abuse.

A soccer goal post

   This is a short post about something I am not really mad about but thought I would share a suspicion.  It has to do with soccer and something that I think would make the game more fun and interesting. My theory is that regulation soccer fields should be smaller. I think that the usual soccer scores are a little bit too low and people have to run too far but no one wants to say it because it would be like admitting that they were too tired or not great athletes.  That is just a theory that I have, and everyone can watch the world cup games and say that I do not know anything, but I actually did play indoor soccer one time and it was really fun, and it was fun because it was a smaller space and more time was spent aiming the ball instead of trying to transport the ball and it went all over the place constantly so everyone was always actually playing soccer and not doing long distance running in disguise.

    This also reminds me to share an idea for a game that me and some friends made up in middle school.  The game is called Ten-vol-soc.  You play it on the tennis court and you use volleyball rules but kick the ball across the net and try not to let it hit the ground.  It really is fun and I think people could become really good at it and eventually use the Wimbleton courts for world championships.

Desperate Times

    It may not be necessary to write this post since I have already mentioned this topic enough for other people to crack the code and solve the obvious problem, but I did decide to go ahead and say a little more about the rent gouging problems in this country.  A lot of people want to talk about gentrification and say that the "real" real estate problem is the bad white people taking over all the neighborhoods.  But I think it would be more honest and more productive to place the blame where it really belongs, which is on the apartment and real estate people who are gouging everyone.  I think that the faster that people realize that the rent gouging doesn't really help white people either and hurts pretty much everyone in not just individual neighborhoods but the whole country, then the faster we can prevent the behaviors that are actually wrong and our whole society can recover.

    And I want to add my main idea, which some people will think is horribly ignorant communism.  But I think that really, I am right when I say we need to question our whole system of letting people in power charge everyone rent that eventually exceeds the value of the property.  I think that there is a strong case that it is exploitation by nature and should not be allowed.  I will even say the most drastic idea for a solution that I have, which is that a lot of the apartments people pay rent for might need to all of a sudden be condos with their accumulated rent totals counting as mortgage and the ownership being transferred to the tenants.  People would kill over this and they think it is the foundation of American capitalism that I am attacking, but I think they might unexpectedly be wrong about that.  I think that justice is the true foundation of a profitable economy, and the damage that greedy people have done to our country does deserve a punitive act that could include property seizure.  And who better to hand the property to than the people who actually have paid for it.

"When lives are shattered, brains should be splattered."

I was recently at a conference where a speaker mentioned that Christian writers needed to have a response to the "Me Too movement."  I think he was an editor, so it actually is appropriate for him to be talking about it in a writing context.  And it probably is good and faithful for Christians to be on the lookout for some "gospel need" in any discussions that become kind of macro and national.  But I also felt strongly that the actual issues of most of the "me too" articles and essays from abuse survivors should not be minimized into just some kind of arbitrary current events topic that Christianity can be mechanically plugged into, and even a hint of viewing it that way is exactly the reason people wouldn't want to hear that editor's message, and is also part of why the abuse in question has taken over our country.  The Christian response to millions of people saying they have been sexually abused should include an immediate effort to kill the rapists.  That is the situation. We have a nation of pigs and rapists and we should be standing up to all of it in every context.  And when things are criminal, then there should be a use of force to stop the abuse.

The Stench of Liberal Hypocrisy

            It is normal and good for people to not want to be Nazis and to not want to be the bad people in the old civil rights photos.  But when fearfully avoiding "the wrong side of history" is the only moral compass someone has, and they want to prove their goodness by acting out another holocaust using real people as props, then I think they have to be suspected of contributing to the problems themselves. 

            People in the media still seem to be operating under a "trust us, we're the good guys," delusion as they report on all the flailing and failing republican efforts to "secure the border." But I am not convinced of the supposed media goodness.  I have thought since even before Trump got elected that the promotion that propelled him to power was directly and deliberately from the New York Times and a few other news sources who wanted to seem like heroes.  That is not to say that they genuinely like him. I do think they think he is a bad leader, but I think they also have always wanted him to represent the republicans and not just the republicans but really the Christians in this country, because it serves their interests of trying to squelch us and even destroy us.  I don't think it could have been more obvious during the elections, and if anyone thinks I am wrong, I would be interested in seeing even one example of any news story about any of the other Republican primary candidates.  The fact is that it was the media's strategy to make Trump the candidate because they thought everyone would vote for Hillary instead.  But a lot of people really don't want to pay for 40 million abortions, so they reluctantly voted for Trump.  And instead of admitting that their plan went wrong, The New York TImes immediately started diverting everyone's attention to the possibility of some kind of Russian interference in the election, when really, everyone remembers what happened.  The debates were horrible and Clinton got taken down by an abortion question.  And then the Republican candidate that the media chose for everyone actually won.  And what is left to do than for all the liars to try to prove themselves innocent by doing everything they can to insure that their only historical references: the Civil Rights movement and the Holocaust, actually play out with them starring as the heroes who denounce Trump.  And another interesting thing about this is that even with literally thousands of headlines selling the liberal narrative, everyone, including the liberals, knows that what I am saying is true.  And they also know that we do have immigration problems that need to be solved.  But why solve anything when we can spend all our free time playing nerdy little history games with all the people we can control because of their poverty that is largely due to our same old problems not getting solved, because it is such valuable material to use for the liberal's reputations in all their little photos that they wish were more iconic than their own dishonesty which is now an indisputable part of history.

Contracts aren't everything.

      People in our society make a big deal out of agreements, especially when it comes to wages.  A lot of people believe that if you agree to work for a certain wage, it automatically means it is fair.  But contracts aren't all there is to justice.  Justice also means that people get paid what they deserve in the first place, and that they keep what they deserve to keep.  Work value, effort, competition, and especially profits might all be factors, and an agreement doesn't mean that no one is being scammed.

       It is actually very dangerous for too many legal decisions and societal transactions to be based only on contracts and agreements.  People can be tricked, exploited, and leveraged into any kind of abuse with agreements when there are no other protections.  And even though everyone has gotten used to being expected to "read the fine print" and letting signatures be the last word on any matter, I think that more and more people will soon realize the limitations of legal paperwork without the foundation of true justice behind it.

      All the long and overwhelming "terms and conditions" that people have to sign before using any technology are one example of the risks that come with forcing people to agree to things. We all know that most people not only don't but probably can't read all the terms and conditions for almost every service that grants us access to most public participation and trade, and we all know that the personal information that is supposedly now the property of people who got us to click certain boxes gives complete strangers an absurd and dangerous amount of power over all kinds of people, including vulnerable populations like children. At some point, the agreements will have to be over-rided by more important factors and logic.

      Here is a more specific example: I signed up to pay my rent from an automated system because the property management company kept pretending not to get my checks.  When I signed up, I had to agree to their terms, and one of the terms said that they were not responsible for lost money even if the reason was negligence on their part.  I literally had to agree that negligence would be okay in order to pay my rent.  It is absurd, and if negligence happens, do you think it will hold up in court?  I don't think it will, and I think they don't think so, either, otherwise they would have done it.  But some things they will go ahead and try to get away with, and in this corrupt society, there is agreement after agreement that people try to get people to sign in order to have all the power.

      But it isn't automatically justice to honor all contracts, and if we put too much stock in it, the rampant abuse could suddenly mean that contracts have no power, which is also dangerous.  Systems and laws simply can't save a bad society.  They can only protect the good that is already there.  That is one of the moral laws that governs reality, whether people agree to it or not.

Retail store emails that refer to me as part of their "family"

For a lot of people during the holidays, entire turkey and ham dinners are really just side items to be served with the main course of family problems that never seem to end. People have also used the word "family " and "family friendly" to exclude people with gender problems or single people. The word "family" is a loaded word for a lot of people, with a lot of implications, which makes it even more embarrassing for there to be a new trend of organizations unrightfully referring to members or customers as "family."  Obama did it several times with America, referring to our country as one big family, and I have recently gotten multiple emails from random retail stores referring to their customers as family members.  The college I went to a long time ago in South Carolina also tried to call all the alumni family in a survey, and I have to say that even though I feel a lot of love for a lot of strangers and hope that everyone can be adopted as God's children, I find it insultingly presumptuous and inexcusable when anyone, but especially someone just trying to get my money, assumes that kind of role with me.  I actually find it abusive in more than just a philosophical way, and I know that many people have deep and very mainstream religious beliefs that require them not to ever refer to people that way so flippantly.  And this might sound stupid, but what about divorced people who shop at the same store.  Who does some jerk marketer think they are to remarry those people.  People think I am being a persnickety grammar snob or just a snob, but there are some really bad people doing really bad things in almost every part of society and this world, and they are not my family. Standing in the same line with someone at the grocery store does not mean I am so much as their second cousin fifty thousand times removed, and for both the commies and the capitalists to try to foist that on me for no other reason but to take everyone's inheritance, including the safety and security of the country, is reason for me to disown everyone.

Monopoly

No need to make too big a deal of it, but this week, the cable company charged me five dollars just to let me pay my own bill for internet service.  And I was also thinking about how I rent my modem from them and may be paying ten times what the modem is worth because of that, which is absurd, though if I were stronger I could have bought a different modem.  But I think that is the idea, and it is interesting to think about with apartment rent gouging, too.  If our system suddenly became a rent to own system where your past rent was credited to you as going toward the cost of a place to live, I think people would freak out and talk about communism.  And yet with the modem situation, the absurdity of people paying more than something is worth and still not owning it is easily apparent.

Taking down the statutes

 For today's mad blog post I would like to say that I think almost all statute of limitations laws that keep people from bringing abuse charges after a certain amount of time has passed are a terrible injustice and an embarrassment to our society and all of so called "civilization."  These kinds of laws do one thing, which is to help bad people get away with child abuse and other violations. The endorsement of this behavior through law actually to me should make people really wonder if there can be such thing as good people in power.  I have always believed that there can be and must be, but laws like this are suspicious.  What are people hiding and getting away with to maintain their control?  It must be something awful if there are laws saying that people's accusations don't count once they have found the strength to report what has really happened.

Noise Levels

Well everyone, today I called my favorite restaurant to ask them if they play their music from a playlist and the guy told me that people play music from their Ipods and they have a jukebox.  I told him the reason I was wondering was because last night when I was one of just a few customers there, the music started off great and then turned into the song "I wanna sex you up," and I suspected deliberate harassment.  The manager was not happy to hear a legal word like that but really I am doing him a favor because they could get sued for stuff like that even though people who do that stuff think that people don't realize that they are humiliating people on purpose.  But some of us do know because we get treated that way all the time.  I don't think that case is as clear as when I was in a junk and antique store in Brooklyn and I was the only customer and there was just one piece-of-garbage male employee who immediately put in a C.D. that started with the song "I just want to m. l. to you." Oh, it's a classic alright, and as mad as I was, I didn't realize until later that what it really is is classic sexual harassment.  Another store in my neighborhood cranked up some nasty music past 100 decibels one day when I walked in but I stayed and bought some shoes and the store people were just young teens or twenty-somethings who I suspected had experienced more racism even than the blatant racial and sexual harassment they were treating me with right then so I did not even call their corporate office to complain.  But it is interesting to me that all these people think their offense and the deliberate nature of it is undetectable, because really it is pretty obvious, even amid all the offensive canned playlists from corporate offices that are meant to speed up their store traffic or build a brand that is officially too cool for people with morals or decency.  In the end, people will say it is free speech, but I don't think that's what they would so quickly defend if they heard me say my free speech that I usually say in those situations, which is "Death and Shame to you In The Name of Jesus Christ." I am sad, because all I really wanted was peace of mind, or in some cases, to have nice background music, which is also what I would rather hear than the agonized shrieking and wailing that all of humanity will hear and rejoice over when all those people and other rapists like them are burning in hell some day in a future that actually isn't that far away.

The Worst Policies

   Sometimes I wonder what kind of jokes comedians are making and have been saying for the past twenty years because to me sometimes it seems like nothing is funny. It just seems like this whole country and world is a tragedy.

   I mean are they making jokes about how Subway's mayonnaise isn't really mayonnaise?  Because I looked it up online after tasting a horrible mysterious white plastic-like goop and sure enough, there are no eggs in the "recipe," or should I say "chemical formula." And at the store in my neighborhood, if you say you want Cheddar Cheese, they give you a shredded mix that has a few specks of cheddar and they don't even say anything like "We don't have Cheddar, we have this little mysterious mix that we know isn't what you want or what you asked for."  And hmm I mean I hope the turkey is turkey but we don't really know anymore, do we?

   And then okay, maybe it is just the fast food industry, except that iphones seem engineered to be a disposable product now because the charging ports wear out in a year ever since Apple started using the chargers that have that tiny little port instead of the wider port that was more dependable.  And when I try to access my library of music there is this other button that tries to get you to sign up for their apple music program.  And then it is hard to access my old library of music in the first place, so I think, hmm, do I have to rebuy music?  I know I am not the only one.  I've heard many rumors that Apple tries to make their products become obsolete fast on purpose, but is "obsolete" really the same as "defective?" I don' t think it is, honestly.

   That was funny when I just said the word "honestly," wasn't it?"

Trials and Errors

Well everyone, it is a Thursday morning in October and I am starting my day mad at Pope Francis. It is not really anything personal except he told everyone that the death penalty is wrong and contrary to  the gospel and Christianity. I think he is the one who is wrong this time, not the death penalty, and people who do what they are supposed to and are morally secure have no problem sending murderers, child abusers, and rapists onward to Judgement Day for God to decide what is next for them. And one of those reasons is that there might not be a bad enough punishment possible for them on earth. As much as people want to seem compassionate by saying it is no one's right to take another life, the fact is that the humane thing to do is to rid our streets of rapists and murderers and to trust that there can be more justice and mercy beyond this world. So really the thing that is not Christian is thinking that all we see is all there is and everything is up to us in such a way that we have to be too careful to do what is right and err on the side of letting traffickers and heroin dealers ruin everyone's lives. There are horrible things happening in our country, and I think the real question before us these days is not whether the death penalty is moral, but whether the murderers and rapists should still get a trial beforehand.

People at Half Mast

   I have taken a break from mad blog posts and it could be because I have recovered from people hurting me and my general anger has decreased.  I think my non-madblog posts are better, and I am tempted to just say nevermind about this blog. But it is a good place for opinions, and I think I will share a thought about the flag protests, which I do think are warranted.  Trump didn't just express his opinion that flag protestors should be fired, but in my opinion actually tried to influence NFL bosses to fire their players.  So yeah, people should protest.  And other people's knee-jerk objection to their very appropriate protest exposes another problem which is the intellectual laziness that has resulted in a lot of our political problems.  For years, people have just let themselves believe that the soldiers are the only true American heroes, and that people like workers or taxpayers or even children don't also contribute to our society in heroic ways, and that the flag doesn't and shouldn't also represent them.  So if someone suggests that there may be some problems represented by that flag, people automatically say that the wounded veterans are the ones being disrespected.  But really, the protestors are defending the true value that the flag should have represented, and in that way are supporting the veterans by trying to insure that their sacrifice is not in vain.
  A lot has already been said about all of this, but I did feel like sharing this opinion, because I have always been aware as a low paid retail worker that some people's contributions to our society are celebrated and some people don't even earn a living wage while their companies rake in millions of dollars of profit from their labor, which then goes to pay the salaries of people who are declared heroes as soon as they sign up for service.  But there are a lot of heroes, and sports stars who have overcome great odds do stand for something too and are right to protect everyone when some loser threatens to take away everything they have earned.

Daily Grime

   I remember as a kid having so many hilarious laughs with middle school and high school friends whenever we would say "What if someone did such and such," and it would be some inappropriate thing that we all knew was absurd.  And everyone had a basic understanding of societal norms, and how terrible it would be to see some kind of embarrassing commercial when you were with your grandmother, or how wrong it would be for a teacher to do something crazy like show pornography in class. I think that these standards in our minds became the foundation for some deep appreciation of hilarious jokes, some of which were homemade, and some of which were expertly presented in movies and on TV.
    But now, as if someone went and dumped all the spices ever made into everyone's food and drinks and even ice cream, we have nasty images and nasty jokes and nasty music in our faces and minds constantly everywhere we turn.  People can say that is not true but I do not believe them.  If you need to make some copies at an office store, you will get it done while listening to a top 40 song that is more explicit than a medical anatomy class and has people making actual sexual noises. Bus drivers who wanted decent, honest work, suddenly find themselves driving down the road with huge underwear ads featuring completely naked people on their bus for everyone to see.  I really can't think of anything more disrespectful to a community and especially to a worker doing their job. How disgusting. If you say anything about it, you are considered a prude, but I think that most people, and possibly everyone, knows in their hearts that our culture has a problem and it probably is contributing to high rates of abuse, and isn't that far from abuse itself. Some people get no break from it and do not even know what it is like to think about other things and play regular games and care about a normal movie storyline or hear a song that isn't some nasty metaphor, or even that is a metaphor instead of being a base and crude description of bodily functions.  There used to be such a thing as a dirty joke, because some jokes weren't dirty. Now the people behind and in front of the media are the dirty jokes who have ruined our society.  When I speak out about it or even frown, people literally turn up the music louder to humiliate me, but I will still make my case for a Muzak revolution, not because it is my job to clean all the rapists' minds, but because I know that things were funnier and life was zippier when dirt had its place, and that place wasn't everywhere.

the cutting of the cake makers

   Hi, would people like to hear my opinion about gay wedding cakes?  Some people think it is a no brainer like refusing to make a certain kind of cake for certain people is automatically discrimination, but I do not really think so.  I would kill myself if people forced me to create something that I did not want to create.  I think that the rule should be that anyone should be allowed to buy any cake that a cake maker makes, but that cake makers should only have to make original cakes according to designs they choose and believe in themselves.  So if they have wedding cakes and gay people want one for a wedding, they should have to sell it, but if some loser comes in their shop and demands that they design some nasty cake or some cake with icing saying something they don't believe in then they  have no moral obligation whatsoever to comply and should also not have any kind of legal obligation.  So to me it is about design. I know that some people think that their religious rights are violated if they have to sell a cake to someone that they don't want to, but to me, especially since gay marriage is legal, then it is reasonable to expect them to treat everyone the same.
   I think that part of this has to do with how personal a cake is or isn't.  You are not the officiating minister because you made someone a cake.  The cake doesn't have that kind of meaning, and if it did, then wouldn't your cake sale be the wedding? Everyone knows that it is not.
  So now people are like oh, funny you should mention ministers. They are next on our list of people we want to persecute.  Well hmm I guess that is part of gay marriage tradition now isn't it? People choose the flowers they want, and choose their wedding party, and then choose the religious people whose lives they want to ruin.

social justice was my religion in fourth grade

Hmmm, which is better... trickle down economics from the corporations or trickle down guilt manipulation from the social work schools. I just don't know... but people who call every single good thing in life "privilege" are no allies of mine.

My opinion about USA healthcare

The healthcare problems are about ten scams combined:

-Drug companies and medical services gouging everyone

-A layer of absurdly high insurance profit on a pooled-money cost-sharing system

-Insurance companies taking money and not providing coverage

-Discrimination against the sick and disabled through pre-existing conditions coverage denial and enslaving policies requiring continuation of coverage

-Employer based insurance instead of true free market individual insurance for anyone

-The illusion of a gambling system when it is voluntary socialized medicine that cuts costs by refusing to pay for some people

-the absurdity of expecting people to keep insurance from working when the insurance purpose is to pay for care for conditions that make is difficult or impossible to work

-the scam of underpaid working poor people not being able to afford healthcare or anything else because their companies do not pay fair wages much less share profit

-the scam of insurance being called a "benefit" when many employees pay for it themselves every month

-companies paying people in benefits instead of wages in the first place

-broken contract behavior from the government who promises health care and then takes it back

-senators making salaries for life instead of just when they are working and then making all their decisions to "save taxpayer money"

-abuse and exploitation from employers who know their workers are not free to leave jobs because of dependency on insurance

People have been patient with this outrageous scam that has cost our country freedom and lives for many years.  Obamacare was a good start to fix it.  Bad laws and bad people have exhausted my patience and strength as a libertarian worker and I think I will probably advocate for single payer Medicare for all.  People will call me a commie but I think it is a solution that could set people free to be prosperous and the whole deficit could disappear almost instantly when people use their gifts to be productive instead of panicking to keep insurance while companies squeeze the life out of everyone.

More of a free market option could be a competitive system where everyone has individual insurance and it is like car insurance.  This could also solve the pro-life pro-choice disagreements because people could choose companies that cover or dont cover certain costs. But really this option is probably what should have happened twenty years ago and people instead chose to let the insurance companies and employers take advantage of everyone.