Those of you who are reading this and saying "I'm not going there" are pretty smart. I've never been accused of that, so here goes...

I feel bad for you benj because in this country, your wife should have had better care when she needed care. I don't mean going on the dole or shamelessly living off of others, I just mean we could be a lot smarter and in touch with people's needs than we are now. We spend billions on the most inane things.

When you live in a really good community that provides quality services and facilities for it's citizens, we don't scream that we've all "gone to hell in a socialist handbasket". We appreciate what hard work, vision and cooperation can do, and we say that's the way it should be in America. (TV's as a pretty good example).

It's not about THOSE people with an ENTITLEMENT mentality. We ALL have increasing expectations from what our great country has already provided. If our ancestors roll in their graves, it's not because of the lazy poor folks, it's from shock at all the fine things the spoiled folks have.

It's not about the RIGHT to healthcare. The RIGHT to healthcare is the same as the RIGHT to carry AK-47s. Argue forever about RIGHTS. And for those of you made crazy by that filthiest word of all: 'LIBERAL', you get too easily distracted as well.

We can do better. If we can accomplish the overall standard of living we have now, we can do even greater things. For the poor we can provide the kind of start our immigrant ancestors got all the way from Ellis Island to the towns and cities that took them in.

What's wrong with more and better healthcare? If we do improve it and, unlike benj's wife, people get access to and live better with the best medicines, does that mean we will become inexorably mired in the depths of some radically liberal socialistic society headed for destruction? Not a chance.

So don't think John McCain will be the answer just because he's the opponent of some crazy liberal who is determined to tap into the pocketbooks of billionaires then throw that money away on people who aren't worth a damn. The last guy who said he was conservative has left us a legacy worse than any socialist handbasket and will almost certainly be regarded as the worst leader we've ever had.