After thinking and meditating the last couple of days, I have TOTALLY revamped my way of thinking so here now is where Catamount man stands.
- Universal health care is a viable and moral good and should be pursued AS LONG as there remains an option(a freedom, a choice by any other name)to either choose the public plan or maintain one's own private health care and this include abortion as well. Insurance companies have lived off the fat of the citizen for way too long.
- trickle down economics is a failure and tax cuts for the wealthiest 5% has done NOTHING to stiumulate this economy and the result is the crisis we are near almost a year into. That being said, I am still not sold on President Obama's stimulus act, although it is way too early to tell if it will succeed or not and it's only fair to allow him that time.
- I still foresee a split within the Democratic Party with one side being led by the Blue Dog coalition as a moderate/fiscal conservative group with the other group belonging to the far left. The GOP is dead in the water and as much as I hate to say this, no 3rd party is still strong enough to make a challenge for the white house in 2012 with Ron Paul being the one exception. 3rd party followers still support way too many agendas that most Americans will not even think about supporting.
- No one political party can claim to have the pulse of the American populace. Polls are skewed and major cable outlets, both "liberal" and "conservative" have only one agenda and that is too make money all while rattling our emotions. The day Americans turn these people off, although they are entertaining at times, and start to think for themselves and let it show in their voting process and more importantly in how they treat their fellow American, legal and illegal, will be the start of a much needed return to humility for our nation which will bring about the peaceful reclaiming of our nation from those who continually subvert us for their own selfish gains. Peace.
