The Four pillars – I wrote about the Social Pillar and the Economic Pillar yesterday. Lets take a look at Pillar #3 – the Health pillar.
Our healthcare in this country is non-existent! We have sick care, not health care here. We React to our symptoms but don’t try to get at the root of WHY we have these symptoms. We think we can take a pill for EVERYTHING and are now better. We aren’t “better” we have just masked the symptoms so we can ignore them and keep doing what we were doing. We aren’t fixing anything – we are fooling ourselves into believing that our Drs and health care providers know what in the hell they are doing.
Myself personally have had some not so great experiences with health care providers. The only answer I seem to get from them is “take this prescription and if it gets worse call me” – yeah of course, so I can pay for yet another Drs appointment and prescription again. We have become so damn lazy as a society we don’t bother to take care of ourselves. We are couch potatoes and want a pill to lose weight. We eat junk food and want a pill to lose weight. We eat more junk food and need a pill for heart disease due to high cholesterol and diabetes. We are KILLING ourselves and our PLANET and we aren’t doing anything about it.
Health care in Congress is not the answer – the government cannot fix this. WE need to fix this ourselves. It is time to step up and be responsible and be an adult that is aware of what is going on and be accountable for our own actions.
The 4th pillar is Education. Public schools are increasingly showing lower scores on tests that are supposed to measure how much knowledge our kids/students obtain. Hmmm…. My taxes have gone up each year to pay for public education – more money, less results. The schools are increasingly becoming the parents of our kids – gone are the basic education skills (you know those basic “R”s. Reading, Riting and Rithmatic”! --- Now we have to teach kids social skills, health habits, nutrition, and the list goes on and on…. Plus our public schools are becoming more of a daycare than an educational institution. And look at the highschools – they are no better – kids not graduating with anymore skills than they had in 6th grade – and college! The cost is astronomical for most people – and again, kids come out of college with a TON of debt and no more chance of a job than anyone else.
People – please pay attention to what is going on around us. Little by little our “pillars” are eroding and falling down….. whats the solution? What are we going to do? We keep throwing money at problems and creating more hardship for families that can’t afford anything else. We are waiting on our government to “fix” things. WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT! Wake up!
We need real solutions. Real answers - not easy fixes to these issues. Stay tuned...
