If you’re the kind of rude individual who brings up current events as a topic of conversation, most likely you’ve heard the response, “Well, I’m not political.” Of course, the speaker means that he or she doesn’t pay much attention to politics and probably doesn’t even vote.

Wake up, folks! Not being “political” is a political choice. When you say you’re not political, you really mean you’re not engaged, you’re not informed. Ultimately you’ll pay the price.

One of my non-political friends recently got a new job after a six month lay-off. She’s frustrated with her new job for a number of good reasons. However, one of her complaints is that she was told she had full medical, but she contributes part of her paycheck to medical insurance and has high co-pay.

While I agree that she should keep looking for another job, I told her she very likely has full medical coverage. “Full” medical coverage isn’t what it used to be. I pointed out that the issue of rising medical insurance costs has been in the news for the last couple of years. Didn’t she notice?

No, she hadn’t been paying attention. Part of the problem with rising medical costs isn’t the retiring baby boomers, a lousy excuse and pretty scary if true because the baby boomers really haven’t started to retire yet. The real problems are corporate greed, a lack of regulation and the passing on of the losses from to insurance companies’ poor investment choices to the insured instead of their stockholders.

While not entirely a political problem, politics play a part.

Now I’m not the most politically engaged guy around. I both admire and slightly distrust the people who eat, drink and breath politics from the local to the national level. Call them nuts, but those are the people doing more than the rest of us to save the republic.

Stating I’m “political” sounds moronic. Whatever the term ought to be, I’m trying to do better.

Propaganda ● Campaign Positions ● Comics  ● Blahog ● Eddie's Corner ● Resources ● Home ● Contact Us

Copyright  © 2004 Bill Kelly