by Sandor Stern
Dear Republican Friends,
Regarding the Presidential Election…
I’m sure you are feeling depressed over your candidate’s defeat. I don’t mean to gloat but I must confess I am deliriously happy. There are so many reasons for my joy.
Obama’s election means that in 2014 the Affordable Care Act will fully kick in and allow the USA to join the rest of the world’s more developed nations in offering a national health plan. This is not to say that the ACA represents the best plan this nation can offer but it is a major step towards universal health care.
It means that Medicare will not be gutted by a voucher system designed to do just that. The problems of Medicare will be addressed in a responsible way.
It means that the problems with Social Security will be handled without privatizing.
It means that Roe vs Wade will not be overturned and the government will stay out of every woman’s uterus, every couple’s bedroom and every person’s right to marry whomever they choose.
It means that women will not be ranked as financial second class citizens and will receive equal pay for equal work.
It means that Obama’s executive order allowing illegal immigrant children to be granted certain rights will not be overthrown and that the Dream Act will have an administration with a conscience to move it along.
It means that the elite 1% in this country will have to give up some of their enormous financial gain over the past 10 years in order to bring down the national debt.
It means that shipping American jobs to foreign countries will not give American companies tax breaks and that keeping those jobs here will be rewarded.
It means that government regulation will protect consumers from the avarice of banks, insurance companies and Wall Street.
It means that global warming will not be perceived as junk science and will be addressed as the real and dangerous problem it poses to the world.
It means that alternative forms of energy will trump oil drilling as a direction for our future.
All of these positive actions would have been impossible given your party’s published platform. I am so relieved.
On a more personal note, Obama’s reelection means that Ted Nugent will be leaving the country as he promised. As a final act of patriotism I beg him to take with him – Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, Rove and Trump. Given his hatred of Obamacare his final destination will be the only country remaining in the civilized world without a national health plan – Turkey. I wish him luck with his fundamentalist Christian ideology in that country.
Your friend,
Sandy
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