I don’t usually point out national blogs here but I found this post by Roger Ebert this morning where he talks a great deal about health care and the realities facing not only citizens but government as a whole. He believes things are going to get worse before they get better. It’s a long read so go get yourself a cup of joe and settle in where Ebert tells an American tale.
We’re in for some hard times. We need to pull in our belts, pay more taxes, demand more value for our taxes, and say no to an ideology that requires converting our health money into corporate profits. We should to raise the lowest wages, and lower the highest ones. We have to return to the saying my father quoted to me a hundred times: “A fair day’s work for fair day’s pay.” No, I don’t think everyone should be paid the same wage. If you earn a lot of money, you have a right to a lot of money. If you earn it. But when Wall Street bosses are paid millions in bonuses for bankrupting their firms, and their political tools in Congress oppose a better minimum wage, that’s plain wrong. It’s rotten. People who defend it with ideology are strapped to a cruel ideology.
Ebert may not be able to speak these days but he is still using his voice.