Another Thanksgiving is rolling through and I want everyone in the United States to think about a few simple things.
1. No matter how much you complain about copays and having to sit in a waiting room for an extended amount of time to see your doctor to get a prescription be thankful that you have access to health care and medications.
2. In the event that something goes tragically wrong you can dial 911 and have police, fire, or emergency medical support in a matter of minutes (in most areas).
3. Public sanitation, indoor plumbing, and water treatment facilities all prevent disease by taking away waste that can contaminate your living environment, drinking water, and draw pest infestation.
4. Despite the punditry bullshit you hear about this being a "Christian" nation on television, you have the freedom to practice any religion that fits your spiritual needs but does not encroach on the freedoms or well being of others.
5. Routine vaccinations protect you from horrible diseases. You may not think this is important because we don't see these diseases on a regular basis but with world wide travel and shipping we are going to be exposed to these diseases and have had incidents of preventable disease run rampant in unvaccinated populations.
6. You have access to unlimited amounts of almost every food you could possibly ever want to eat and more. My aunt and uncle had a Russian foreign exchange student living with them. He wept openly the first time he walked into a grocery store. There is more food in each single supermarket here than most people see in a lifetime in other countries.
7. You have the right to keep a gun in your home and pop a cap in the ass of any douche bag that thinks he/she can snatch your stuff with no consequences.
8. You can type or speak or peaceably gather to let the powers that be know your frustrations and opinions on what they are doing.
9. Our welfare people live better than Chinese factory workers.
10. We have lower income taxes than most industrialized nations.
11. If you have a roof over your head, a job, money in your pocket and money in the bank then you are in the upper 8% of the wealthiest people in the world.
12. Our library system gives you tomes of entertainment and education information just for being a resident. It is free unless you forget to return the book in its allotted time...those fees add up...
13. Each and every one of us is guaranteed up to a 12th grade education. You can use this opportunity to better yourself or just piss it away. It is entirely up to you.
Thank you America! Even with all our problems you still f*cking rock when it comes to quality of life and being the land of plenty and if I was a citizen of another nation you can be f*cking sure I would be an illegal immigrant by any means necessary just to peruse your grocery stores!
For all of my holiday travelers, don't forget to pack medications in your carry on luggage!!! For all of my diabetic patients, please try not to over do it and make sure to have extra insulin on hand because you might need to go a little higher on your sliding scale this Thursday if you do.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
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3 comments:
I give your post two thumbs up. Another thing I was always thankful for is my family. I was raised in a stable home that valued a good education and participation in extracurricular activities. Even holiday get-togethers and reunions with the extended family are always pleasant.
I am thankful for my family too but I thought something like that didn't need to be said because I was going for generalizations of living conditions and modern convenience that pretty much everyone here takes for granted then blames illegal immigrants for "taking their jobs". The reality is that most Americans on disability and unemployment do not seek a new job until those payments run out. I know personally people who have turned down high paying jobs because they are getting paid to have unlimited free time until their unemployment runs out or until their kids all turn 18 because that is when the welfare payments run out. We are a corrupt and lazy nation.
You have to be thankful for the good medication out there too.
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