Reply #47: It is progress. Small progress, perhaps, but progress. [View All]

[Dr Morbius]

We've exited an era in which government refused to acknowledge the existence of problems and entered an era in which government puts Band-Aids on problems. Which is better than nothing.

Barack Obama can be seen, in a way, as the Band-Aid President. It seems like he's trying to address the problems faced by ordinary Americans, and he correctly sees that the problems are not few. He wants to address them all, one by one, and this is the second major reform he has implemented. Both HIR and Wall Street reform bills wound up being disappointing to those of us who wanted cures implemented, but both will help alleviate the problems. A little bit. Kinda like a Band-Aid.

Now, there are many who are angry about the Band-Aids when surgery is required. It makes it appear as though treatment is being applied but it clearly is not enough. But does one turn down a bandage when one is bleeding? No, one does not. One continues to insist on a real cure to healthcare insurance and to potentially crippling Wall Street shenanigans and by the way also to FISA; I have not forgotten. We take this bone, for we starve, but we continue to growl for real meat.

Let us all applaud the Democrats so: clap, clap, clap. Very good, ladies and gentlemen. Now (to President Obama and the Democrats in both Houses): back to work! When corporations pay for political advertisements they need to identify themselves in the ads, and foreign corporations need to keep out of our elections altogether. There's a bill in the works; let's get on it. No freaking parades for doing your jobs - poorly. We expect better. You want real applause? Do better.

This isn't historic legislation. It's necessary legislation, and inadequate at that. But yeah, we'll take it. Back to the drawing board, though; we won't be palliated by the legislation, and we won't be satisfied. Band-Aids don't knit broken bones. They fail to even address the pain suffered.