GET SICK

So I watched Sicko [Moore's documentary on Health Care]. And I realized we got ourselves into this huge problem. Namely, the only Western Country to have no universal health care plan. I believe I am fully correct to say the US is a second world country.

But in all seriousness, why the hell is America such a horrible place?! Even though European countries are far from perfect, they at least try to take care of everyone. No homeless people sleep on the streets, free health, constant aid to help citizens eat. Sure there'll a few ditches, but they continue to buffer them out as I speak.

What I am getting at is, this movie/piece of media is a reflection on the American commonplace. I will openly say that the American way is to live in fear, live in debt, not be able to go to Cuba, and be held down from someone above you. I say good people, that's one hell of an American dream you got there.

Of course, I can be bias and this film simply added more flames to my fire of "anti-Americanism", despite I believe deeply in freedom and the dreams that our forefathers set out.

Nevertheless, I feel like Americans are too sheltered from everything. And being sheltered from everything, develops a feeling of fear towards anything new, any change.

I'm the last person to say I accept change openly, but when it comes to something as unemotional, physically important, and generally needed... I pick up the flag of rebellion and change and fight.

Lastly, this brings me to something that surprises me. In Europe, if their country's government treated them the way our government does, they openly say they start a revolutionary war. Here in America, we should be able to rebel-- most guns in the world per capita (even more than the middle east), our poor are practically middle class in even some European countries, and the manpower. We just need to pick up some guns, buy a few weapons (since no one cares who buys weapons, as long as they pay, besides if we are rebelling, we aren't paying taxes, we might as well use our cash the same way the government does for defense), and rally in Washington DC.

And this isn't Un-American! Revolution is suppose to be the American way. Freedom is suppose to be the American way. Not starving to dead, pussy-footin', living in fear!

- Edward U