Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you,
Now there's not a lot I can do
Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer;
So now you put your head in your hands, oh no!
I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you,
Now there's not a lot I can do.
Well work it out someday (Supertramp)
Well the health care debate is over! Or is it? So called Obama care has passed and been signed into law. Depending on what side of the issue your on your either delighted or disappointed. The progressive dreamers and schemers have gotten their way and now as the saying goes the proof is in the pudding.
So what did we really get? Well for most of we got the opportunity to pay for those of us who can't afford or have been denied insurance for pre-existing conditions. I want to make it clear that my personal belief is we all need to be able to receive the best care possible with dignity and respect whether we be homeless (which is another issue) or Bill Gates. That is my ideal view of the world. Unfortunately, my ideal world does not exist. It has never existed and sadly, never will. The reality of the world is there are haves and have nots. We didn't create this, we only get to live with. So our imperfect "representatives" have been bickering back and forth on how to address the issue. Yet they do not represent us. There are far too many of us. I believe we should have had a referendum. Each piece of the bill should have been described to us, the pros and cons and the costs of doing or not doing and we should have voted.
Ah voting. What a novel idea. Novel because we are the fortunate 308,956,305 out of 6,811,331,637 or 4.5% of the people who occupy this planet and live in the United Stares and can vote (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html). We have the right to go several times a year and participate in how we are governed. But, we don't. We sit back and let the other guy vote for us. We let them dictate through their participation how our lives will be affected.
So we go about our daily lives raising our children paying our bills and working harder every year to do so. Taxes continue to rise on everything and at every level. Here's a list of most but not all I am sure:
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We are a country of dreamers though. Thank God for that! We are a very industrious country as well. We have been blessed and we have learned to take our dreams and industrious nature and turn those dreams into reality. Look how far we have come with technology in such a very short time. The past hundred and thirty years with the invention of light bulb. Now we use light to carry our text, voices and video. One day we will find a way to transport solid objects over great distance in seconds reminiscent of the transporters from Star Trek. Some may think it is far fetched but is it really? I was and still am a huge science fiction fan. I remember watching Captain Kirk using his communicator to talk to the ship and and other crew members.
That was in the 70's before cell phones. Now you can't go anywhere in the world without seeing someone with their "communicator" either talking or texting. Whole industries revolve around it cell phones and rapid communications have become ubiquitous. People are sending their kindergarten children to school with cell phones and cell phones are no longer just phones they a internet accessible voice over internet protocol (VOIP) devices. They have global positioning satellite (GPS) technology embedded in them and can be used to track and trace us.
I work out of my home. I have the luxury and sometimes the burden of being instantly at work. I wake up get my coffee, check my emails make some phone calls a conduct almost all of my business without having to take a step out of my door. I spend hours on conference calls and conduct as many meetings as possible via Webex (a program that shares computer screen views for collaboration and demonstrations). I talk with people from Singapore to San Diego all done at the speed of light over glass fibers all because WE ARE DREAMERS!!!
Dream on America dream on!
