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I am in awe that the mere idea of any health insurance plan that might have universal coverage for all Americans is anything but democratic in nature. I am miffed that any politician considering fair affordable health coverage for a vast majority of Americans is spoken of as a socialist. I am surprised that when the “fair market” has shown disdain for pricing health insurance for all Americans as affordable, we are still led to believe at least three decades later this unfair pricing is considered a fluke. How many people must grow ill, prioritize how much health they can afford, or die before passion for human life supersedes the politics of health care. If it is a form of socialized medicine to implement control on prices and equal distribution for health care, and it is capitalism to let the markets decide the prices, it would seem to me the right answer is the choice which lets more people live. Just call it democracy.

There are men and women debating just how much money should be spent on food stamps. These people none of whom go without at least three meals a day and a few snacks in between I am sure, are arguing that poor people are faking being hungry. They insist that the poor are making a sham of this entitlement, and for doing this bad deed must be punished. Giving the hungry too much to eat will make them lazy, these folk say after finishing their two hour lunch. If you want to eat well get a job, earn the dollars and stay off the dole. And like the sick circle of life imposed by the same people who hate any entitlement, there are less jobs created, lower wages and less money to buy the food in the first place. If it is a form of socialism to feed people with enough nutrition to keep them healthy, and it is capitalism to deny them enough food because if they really want it, they should pay for it, it would seem to me the right answer is the choice which lets people live. Just call it democracy.

For the past 42 years, (the years I have voted) I was told that democracy was an idea in which all people had a chance to be great. I was told that capitalism promoted the motivation to succeed, and if successful democracy permitted the average man to become better than average. I was told that democracy was about equal and fair, and the pursuit of happiness which at the least meant, a job, food at your table, a roof over your head, and living a healthy life. When did that definition become something called socialism? And if now providing for the poor, the downtrodden, the old, the in-firmed means acting in a socialist manner and not in a capitalistic approach, then it would seem to me the right answer is call it what you want. Just call it democracy.

I am confused when the so called religious stand tall for the Bible, but seem so small in wanting to care for those children the Bible says we should love. I am confounded when the armies of God decide to wage war on the poor, the elderly, the minority, but pledge their hearts to the wealthy remaining rich. I am knocked for a loop when the so called religious say God only loves you if you are not a socialist. Do they then mean that God loves capitalists who dived and conquer are exclusive rather then inclusive?

When did caring for others, sharing with others become bad? When did stretching out your arm to pull someone from the fire or the depths of a pool become bad? When did capitalism become so unconcerned with the average man? When did we permit the selfish to create the agenda?

Why does wanting to help those who at certain times cannot help themselves or need a shove, or at least equal footing have to be called anything but democracy? Why has the action of helping become less important then labeling it? Why is there any debate on the whole issue of doing unto others as you would have others do unto you?

This is my America and I want it back, from those who seem to care less for the greater good and more for their selfish needs.