Just got back from an "anti-Obamacare" protest in downtown San Luis Obispo, CA. Rolled up on my bike in a blaze of glory chanting "O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma...!" Solo, mind you; me and 100 or so wingnuts. They were all over me, slightly taken aback by this interloper, but ready to engage. One little gray-haired lady said she didn't understand why she should have to pay for other peoples' health care. "How's that Medicare working out for you, Ma'am?" I asked. It only went downhill from there.
Hope to have video after the 6-o'clock news, because once the KSBY guy saw me roll up, he knew I was Daniel in the lions' den and that was where the drama would be.
Hope they don't edit it down to where I look like a lunatic, but my opening statement was this:
It only got better from there.Hope to have video after the 6-o'clock news, because once the KSBY guy saw me roll up, he knew I was Daniel in the lions' den and that was where the drama would be.
Hope they don't edit it down to where I look like a lunatic, but my opening statement was this:
"Health care, in the richest, most prosperous country in the world, is a human right and not a privilege. If we don't find out a way to fix this system, we are failing each other as human beings."
UPDATE: Here's the print version of KSBY's story on yesterday's rally...
"We don't want socialized medicine and it looks like that's what it's leading to," said Joanie Brown. "We want [Capps] to come out and say that she's for the people and for us who she represents, we pay her to represent us."
However not everyone agrees.
"Socialism as a political strategy is like what they had in Russia it's not what we're talking about," said Jim Mallon.
As the only pro-reform person present, San Luis Obispo resident Jim Mallon shared his thoughts Saturday. He says healthcare is a human right, not a privilege.
"I think the system as it's set up now ends up being more expensive than it needs to be," said Mallon.
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