First Chain

There's a chain letter that's starting to go around the internet. If you haven't seen it, please read it here. Feel free to leave a comment and add yourself to the list. Beware; there's a lot to it. I had someone read it over and they said it's quite readable, though, so enjoy.

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We all know the government these days is just crap. I mean, come on.. ask your parents. Talk to any adult that has to pay taxes. Look in the newspaper. Watch the news. It's apparent everywhere. A friend and I have realize that something needs to be done about it. But what can we do as typical citizens? Who will listen to us? If we join together as a large voice, they'll have to.

So, how do we fix things? We work together and make a big noise. When we're eighteen we can all vote, but until then we're stuck with shouting at the press. We can do things like sit-ins which means hanging out some place, alert the news, put up posters... but cause a big noise. The more people we have doing this the better. It won't start until next year, but by then, we'll have many contacts and many people who will want to do something. We need to send this on and get more people involved. By causing a stir, we will get people to listen to us as long as we don't shut up until something is done.

But what needs done? Well, there are quite a few issues we need to address. There's one I'd personally like to take care of. This one, if it's not taken care of, will lose my mom's job in a few years. If that happens, I'm screwed, my friends. My mom pays for 90% of the bills in the house. What about people who are already scrounging around for money and their parent loses a job? What about a family with babies? Ready to help out with this?

Okay, I'm going to drop a lot of information on you right now.

The government is trying to start National Health Care. If we go there, the economy is going to die. There's no recovering from that. Let me explain what this is.
Let's say you think there's something wrong with you and you go to a doctor that says you need a scan to see if you have cancer. In the US currently, you would pay for it and get the scan because your current health insurance either covers it or it doesn't.
In Canada, where they have National Health Care, the request for a scan goes through the government. That means you're put on a long list of people who also want to get scans in the country. You could be dead by the time you're taken care of.
With National Health Care, the insurance offices and companies of these days would be over. That includes where my mom works - there would be hundreds of layoffs just from this area alone.

This also means that if the government takes care of it, it's "free". Not so much; you pay for it in taxes. Our government is already in debt. They'll have to raise the taxes to pay for this. Let me tell you the bad part of raising taxes. It's a bad, bad circle. When they raise taxes, everything is more expensive to pay for the cost of living. If everything raises and you can't make more money to meet that raise, you begin to need assistance like food stamps, and there are layoffs so you're drawing unemployment. Do you know what pays for both of those? The government, of course. So where do they pay for those? Taxes, of course. And thus the circle.

So, do you realize the importance and the danger everything is in? Obama is as sly as a fox but he's being stupid thinking of this Health Care plan. It's a bad idea, and we need people to hear this.

-Jen