ENOUGH ALREADY

by Freeacre

Freeacre contribution to pie. Rhubarb, strawberry Meringue.


Currently 9 hens, 7 pullets and one protector.



New batch of baby rabbits from Thursday.


Young rabbits. Now have 10 of these. Just finally rounded up 5 of them that managed to escape. Live traps and a fish net did the job.


Garden is getting really flush, finally. Warmer weather has helped a lot. Having to cover the garden tonight because of threat of hail.



Greenhouse doing good also. Pole bean climbing to the stars.


Freeacre post;

Let me state for the record that so far, I am not impressed with the congressional plan to extend medical coverage to those without insurance. It is looking to me that it will funnel even more money into the greedy bastard insurance companies and do little to limit the outrageous costs of corporate medical care in this country. Personally, if it were up to me, I would work to eliminate all but catastrophic medical insurance. I would encourage the creation of simple, non-profit neighborhood health clinics, perhaps like the ones in Cuba. It shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg to go to a doctor for a checkup or in response to a minor mishap. I would also study the health care delivery systems of Canada and France, and even Ecuador and take the best elements and combine them to extend basic medical care to everyone in the country. Expensive equipment like MRI and CAT scans would be shared regionally among several clinics. And, yes, I would limit the services to something that the society can afford.

WHAT?? Put us on a budget that would be sustainable?? I can hear it now. The WWII generation (who like to think of themselves as “the greatest generation”) will strike back at any thought of limitation like a snarling ball of venomous cobras with all kinds of vindictive threats and accusations. It has already started. Get a load of this self-absorbed grey-haired nutter ranting about Obama holding a “Nazi revival” and attempting to institute “Hitler’s eugenics movement” because the plan might entail some reasonable cost/benefit concept. This is the kind of thing that I get frustrated by the “late night” sites like Truthseeker and Rense over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo

I am so sick of these paranoid, navel-gazing miscreants. I’ve heard their warped shit all my life. They’ve been wrong about everything, and their “never enough” generation has pretty much ruined the world for life on earth.

These are the ones who came home from the war and got the GI Bill, which paid for their schooling and gave them access to low interest, fixed rate mortgages for their homes. They weren’t put into debt servitude for the foreseeable future in order to get a professional degree like the kids are now. Their parents somehow just disappeared and let them take over the government and corporations and run the world practically from the day they took off their uniforms. The same guys are STILL there! The sons of bitches like Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kissinger, Bush, etc. held on to power until they are well into their 80’s. Look at the Senate. The worse they are, the longer they seem to live. They are the ones who created the military/industrial complex and our nuclear based empire. They are the ones who presided over the chemical companies that have poisoned the planet, the banks that have sucked up most of the money, the corporations that have off-shored the jobs and hidden their profits so they can’t be taxed. They are the ones who raised the rents to ten times what they paid in the past, and killed the unions so the working class could not make a living wage. While they were working, the employers paid for their medical insurance. My son, on the other hand, never had any.

So now, when it is suggested that maybe an open-heart surgery procedure on an 80 year old or a feeding tube installed on a 90 year old so she can suffer an additional 3 months in a nursing home, these nattering nutcases spit and fume about how “unfair” it all is. They should be told to sit down and shut the fuck up.

This is a quote from the AMA Ethics publication: “ … Thirty or 40 years ago it was taken for granted that the elderly were not good candidates for organ transplantation, dialysis, or advanced surgical procedures. That has changed. Age alone is no longer considered a reason to deny necessary care. It is widely assumed that equity demands that the elderly be treated like everyone else; that is, age has become irrelevant in treatment decisions.”

Yeah, and it’s likely to stay that way until the very last one of them is finally dead. By then, there won’t be anything left for the rest of us (as usual).

The irony is that this shameful inability to have any sense of “enough” is not helping the majority of them either. More than once, I have gone into nursing homes and been besieged with elderly patients begging me to take them out of there and let them go home to die. It was horrifying.

Murph’s own mother, finally was allowed to die this week by the nursing home that pretty much held her hostage in Texas for the last two years. It’s funny how the timing coincided with the depletion of her annuity funds. Oh, the money’s gone? Time to call hospice. Until then, her daughter was told that if Melba died under her watch, she’d be held responsible. Melba had been a member of the Hemlock Society for years and years. She had never wanted to be put in a nursing home and languish in pitiful ill health. But, once she had a stroke and made the mistake of telling a nursing home staff person that she planned on going out with some dignity, it became impossible. They had her, and any intervention by the family would have been labeled “murder.” Sort of like “eugenics,” the meaning of words are changed to suit the ends of those in power.

The population of this country is pathologically unable to come to terms with the concept of “enough.” There’s never enough money, enough profits, enough people, enough time, enough stuff. Therefore, we are destroying the quality of life on this earth. We are incarcerating ourselves in this country which is becoming a vast prison plantation.