Sicko

Michael Moore has done it again. I think he's topped himself, really. Perhaps i'm reacting this way because health psychology was the field of my original training. I don't know.

But now I'm angry. I just resent the fact that here in the u.s., we go on and on (especially on the congressional floor) about what a great country this is, but in fact, it's just a boastful country. America is going to the dogs. Perhaps we should give those dogs a name......

Here are the kinds of dogs that thrive in America and thus name it a great country: Lawyers, who get paid to fight, no matter who wins, or whether justice is served. Congresspeople, who get bought and paid for by lobbyists, and who make it their job to look good and cast a sunny image, so that they can get re-elected. HMO executives, who make more money the sicker we get, and the more accustomed we get to receiving less and less, in exchange for paying more and more, for healthcare we don't receive. Then there are the finance dogs, who get paid TONS of money to manage money. That's a game that has other people - the non-money-manager types - making less and less on their own money. People forget that banks make money because of their clients' deposits! And now the banks pay next to nothing, and then go use the funds to make real money through trading various debt instruments or investments. So.... the person with the savings account gets the shaft, while the banker makes the money! Finally, let's not forget that America is the land of promise for mercenary armies and weapons manufacturers.

These are the dogs that have taken over our country. And yet politicians are going to line up again this fall, proclaim their love for children and family, their opposition to crime and drugs, and that's going to be the ballgame. This has become the ultimate gaming ground, a place where democracy is a word used to allow childish adults the voting option between bedtime at 8, or bedtime at 8:15. Either way, the dogs are going to take the candy out of our hands, lie us down, and screw us while we sleep.