I'm For Socialized Medicine

Socialized medicine in America? Why not! The only bad part about the government paying for all of your medical bills is that taxes will go up to cover the additional expenses. Taxes are going to do that anyways, no matter which party controls the government.
Changing America’s health care to socialized medicine will even go as far as helping to solve a few of the problems that we are currently facing in the US. The American people would no longer be worried about Medicare or Medicaid. Elderly people will not have to be concerned about who is going to take care of them when they become unable. The government would take care of them. Socialized medicine will help to get sick people to the right types of doctors who can correctly treat the patient.
Sure, people who work in the medical insurance industry might have to make a career choice, but until people stop dying, there will always be life, car and homeowners insurance.

Explicit Language

Everyday we hear members of parent’s council or another entity complaining about how something is too explicit for their children. Everyday the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, puts another restriction on what can be said on the air. The American government is increasing the limitations of what the media can say.
At the same time the Americanized dialects of the English language are becoming more and more loose; words that used be considered vulgar, are now generally accepted by much of the American population.
Although I cannot speak for the entirety of my generation, I will point out that there are not many words that you will not hear coming out of our mouths. These words that I cannot mention in this article, because they are “bad words,” are so socially accepted that no one even turns when they hear them spoken.
As journalists we are told that we have to not use these words and other “vulgar” comedy because it is “for the greater good of society.” We cannot expose children to these words because it would be very bad if they heard it from a reputable source versus from their friends.
I don’t understand why I can say whatever I want to at the grocery store and no one can stop me, but if I am in front of a microphone, I cannot say *bleep.* If I am in front of my computer working on a newspaper article, I cannot type $&#@.
Since the phrases freedom of speech and freedom of the press have been thrown around so much, they have lost most of their meaning. These two important amendments to the American government no long stand for what they used to.
It has gotten to be so bad these days that if you slip up and accidentally say one of those “bad words” you will be heavily fined by the FCC. And that does not even include all of the suits that will be filed by those fanatic parent groups.
I feel it is sad that I cannot *bleeping* say what I *bleeping* want to.

Allow Trade

These days you see advertisements everywhere that are flaunting the selling point of being American-made. Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, even went as far as changing their slogan to: “An American Revolution” a few years ago. One of Wal-Mart’s slogans is “We buy American.” What exactly are these companies selling? What is so good about American made products and services?
Sure, the money stays where you want it to, but is that really the best thing? Should you deny money for food to a farmer in some third-world country because you want your bananas from America? Just because your money is here in America, does not mean it is going to stay there. You are probably paying an American who is then paying someone else who is not American for other goods and services.
There really is no good argument for not having imported goods. For some reason, the American Government thinks that it has the right to place laws and therefore tariffs on imported goods. Obviously, I do not think that the government should have that right.
If I want a Chinese-made American flag, then I should dang well get my Chinese-made American flag. If I want my coffee beans from a small field in Columbia, then I should get them.
Americans should stop being so selfish. Everything is not all about them. What about the human population as a whole? Shouldn’t everyone else have jobs that are supported by imports? I realize that people are worried about the American economy, but what about the global economy?
There are slogans like “as American as apple pie” but where are the slogans like “as cool as anything global?”