"That's The Way It Is!"

 

“That’s The Way It Is!”

   When stupidity is accepted as unquestioned reality, we have a problem.  I’m sorry but when the present ineffective rules of government are accepted as unalterable reality we are being cowed.  “That’s the way it is Buz, accept it.”  It isn’t working, but accept it.  No, I intend to praise the positive, but rail against what doesn’t work.  And, to me, more and more of government isn’t working.  Are we being cowed?

   When a single member of The US Senate can hold up the ceremonial promotion of our military leadership, it is no longer just a harmless senate show.  It is very real.  By what insane rule of the Senate, is one member given the ultimate control of the other 99?  Is it just the way it is?  Moo.

   When over seventy percent of our nation’s citizens would like to see better regulation of the tools of death, can a majority leader of the Senate or the House not allow a motion of this intent to the floor for discussion and vote?  Well, yes he or she can.  It’s the rule.  We don’t have the right to see our children and ourselves safe from mass murder.  It’s the rule.  Moo.

   Medicare is being charged one hundred and ninety five thousand dollars a year for a lifesaving drug, by Abbvie Pharmaceuticals, to keep me and a couple hundred thousand others alive (that is, $195K/per year/per patient).   The justification for the pricing is that the company paid twenty one billion dollars for the government enforced patent protection.  Paid, not to the government, but to the previous owner of those rights.  The original developer of the drug, Celera Pharmaceuticals, sold the patent rights for three million dollars.  So, through the bidding up of the patent rights price, through time and transactions, the cost of the drug has been increased by a factor of seven thousand times (not with a test tube & a microscope but with a pen).  Well, that’s the way it is.  Moo.

   When our annual military budget is greater than the next ten militaries in the world combined, our government adds twenty to thirty billion per year with a bipartisan vote of eighty to ninety per cent of our representatives for the increase.  Could we use some of these nearly trillion dollars annually for climate change defense, or universal healthcare, or education or infrastructure?  Well, that’s the way it is.  Not a hell of a lot we can do about it.  Moo.

   When your government tells you that they are burying the evidence from the Kennedy assassination in the archives for fifty years (to be increased by another twenty-five years, before the release) is it just the way it is?  When we carefully observe the three buildings falling to the ground on 9/11 and our government tells us that no demolition was involved, is that really the way it was?  (I don’t wish to insult cattle here.)  Cluck, cluck.

   Are we as a nation being cowed into accepting the absurd by: “It’s the law?”  “It’s the way it has always been.”  “That’s the way we (Democrats or Republicans) see it.”  “I’m only one person.  What can I do?”  Moo.

   When women were not allowed to vote, “It’s the law” wasn’t an adequate answer.  Neither did that answer suffice when our nation turned a blind eye to slavery.  When one senator can stop the promotion of hundreds of military officers, “It’s a rule in our senate” isn’t an adequate position.  When one of the most important trials in the history of our nation is about to take place, don’t tell me there are no television cameras allowed in a federal courtroom.  It is my country.  I am a citizen.  Do not treat me like a mushroom.  I will see.  I will speak my mind.  Do not sluff me off with, “That’s the way it is.”  Put on your God Damn cape and take to the sky.  Grr.

Cheers, Old Buz      8/5/2023

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