tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post6639312036450880772..comments2024-03-13T09:26:30.351-04:00Comments on PunkPatriot.com: Obama's Speech: pros, cons, the nitty gritty of the public optionThe Punk Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02671149620207872986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-2940965637328510152009-09-14T15:53:30.269-04:002009-09-14T15:53:30.269-04:00Talking about being back on the bus... i know i ca...Talking about being back on the bus... i know i can't take back being an ass hat like i was. not only at times would i take hard line stance on talking points i knew nothing about which were basically spoon fed to me by evangelical christianity - i also wasn't listening. i know it was youth getting the best of me and i wouldn't lie and let on that the same vigor i had back then has diminished, i think that vigor is refined. <br /><br />i am essentially a universalist now, along with those libertarian socialist/anarchist political views, i think i have grown up quite a bit since basically telling you and everyone else they were going to hell. i look back and laugh now, i am genuinely sorry about my actions that are at this point in my memory laughable due to my staunch ignorance. <br /><br />you really were asking the questions a lot sooner than i was but i am glad i started to get on track around 2000 when my church asked me to stop coming since i was asking too many questions. as i have tempered i have been able to join back in that community these past few months even though we believe wildly different things. odd enough i think you and i are on very much the same page now. and for this i am very thankful, and i think that at least now if we were to have a talk about things i would listen instead of shout. you imparted to me more than i think you know, and for that i am grateful and i thank you.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09559178916212076968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-35433286243347542512009-09-11T23:08:42.693-04:002009-09-11T23:08:42.693-04:00Jarrod, it's great to hear from you again!
I ...Jarrod, it's great to hear from you again!<br /><br />I can hardly believe that you're the same person I got into theological debates on the bus with back in Texas.<br /><br />Much Kudos to your response as well.The Punk Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671149620207872986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-71997896769919301352009-09-10T12:22:01.077-04:002009-09-10T12:22:01.077-04:00Not to shabby of a response. There is no doubt the...Not to shabby of a response. There is no doubt the elephants have lost it and that they have been playing to much of the anti government card - being an anarchist (something more of a primitavist, libertarian socialist like noam chomsky) at heart, i think it would be nice if we decentralized basically all the powers of the government and gave control and regulation back to the states for state run health care - i guess something like Mass has except not as flimsy and pussy willow as Mass. <br /><br />Even me, with my disdain and hatred for authority that is not granted or willfully entered in to, understand the need for at least a local government providing for necessary social contract control. privitized fire fighters = bad news, same with police forces or judicial systems, why we think health care is any different i haven't the faintest idea. <br /><br />my only real complaint is the national rigamarore of the whole system. being a strong decentralist, believeing in the unbinding of the national government - methodically and approriately of course - i can't see how they plan to run this well on a national scale. having heard a British Health systems beuracrat on BBC the other night talking about their health system i am convinced we need to break this up into either regional or state plans. He mentioned the 3 to 1 ration of administrators to care providers in the UK system. That they are the third largest employer (read voting block) in the world after the PRC Army and India's National Railway system. while i don't necessarily have a problem with government employment, i think this on a national scale will become a dragon on a flimsy leash - and just like you predict if it begins to misbehave, ala not being self sustaining - the government will have to turn into saint michael to slay their self made dragon.<br /><br />i think if we decentralized power - turned back the clock and gave states the opportunity to run their business once again as nation states and turned our situation into more of a North American union of states - something like the EU - we would be better off. Of course because of my political and ethical bent i will always favor decentralization. <br /><br />cheers A. hope all is well.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09559178916212076968noreply@blogger.com