Health Care: An Apology, A Realization and Where We Go From Here

So I'm sure that everyone has seen that the President has finally had to conceed that he lied to the American people regarding health care. The President finally manned up and apologized: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-apologizes-people-losing-health-coverage-085336794--politics.html I really don't know why though. How can a person be sorry for a plan that they endorsed and continue to stand by? If you are truly sorry for your actions wouldn't you try to mitigate your mistake by making the situation right? I mean, you are the most powerful person in the world buddy. Im trying not to go into a complete rant over this as I'm sitting here typing because it won't do any good.

I'm bringing this up because the Presidents actions display a key under lying lesson here. The lesson is this: The leaders of this country will lie to its constituents to get anything and everything they want. I'm sure most of you are thinking, "No sh1t! We already know this." While most people do know this at first glance many have not thought about the long term implications to themselves or their families. When the President is comfortable enough to lie to the American people and then follow it up with an apology without changing course it means that you absolutely cannot trust anyone or anything the government tells you. This idea goes pretty deep into the rabbit hole even for me, but the bottom line here is that the government and the President has set a new low for how honest they feel they have to be with the American people.

Now, the bottom line here is we can't do a whole lot in the near term to stop this. What we can do though is to take small actions in our everyday life to mitigate the crap our government is putting us through. Start by taking better care of yourself. Get some exercise and put the triple cheese burger down. Learn a new skill. Buy a few extra cans of food and put them away. Go out and meet your neighbor. Learn to shoot. Build a sense of community with the people around you. I promise that everything is going to get worse before it gets better as far as the government is concerned. Build a group of "go to" people that can help you in a bind. We can only worry about the things within our sphere our influnce, so go out and influence your sphere damn it! :)