Current Affairs Essay

The wild card this time is the current system itself. It has become so dysfunctional, so costly, so unfair, and so in need of replacement that maybe this time Californians will see through all the propaganda and demand an affordable health care system that benefits all of its residents and not just a handful of special interests.

And if California is successful, the rest of the country will follow. But if it isn't, the door will close on any affordable universal health care system for the foreseeable future, and average Americans will continue to get gouged and go broke while Big Business and special interests groups continue to prosper-- big time!

Of course this should come as no surprise to anyone since it is just another corporate fascist component to the "starve-the-beast" plan of the Bush administration, a plan designed to return America to those thrilling, pre-New Deal days of yesteryear when robber barons ruled the roost and working stiffs knew their place.