16 Weeks 3 Days: Babies in Politics

Dear Baby,

Don't waste your time on politics. People have always gotten all freaked out of various political ideas that our government may put in place. It doesn't matter. It's not going to "destroy the country" as so many people say. If they reform healthcare, it won't destroy the country. But I'm for health care reform, so I'm biased. Well, I was against the war in Iraq, still didn't destroy the country. The billion dollar financial bailout didn't destroy the country. gays getting married won't destroy the country.

The point is, that 90% of the time, it's business as usual when it come to running the country. Things change here and there and those policy changes work well for some people and don't work for some people. Some people are okay with them and some are morally opposed to them. And sometimes those changes don't work for a majority, or raise our deficit or get a bunch of soldiers killed, but they have never completely destroyed the country. We have been a country for a while and we've gone through depressions and booms and wars and times of peace and law changes and democratic presidents and republican presidents and protests and you name it. None of it has destroyed the country. Short of getting nuked, I don't think anything will.

But people like to freak out. If something is happening that they don't like, they have to spin it so it's going to have the worst possible outcome. Reforming healthcare is going to DESTROY THE COUNTRY! Really? Even if it's not a perfect plan, you really think it's going to turn the US into wasteland. Because that woud be a destroyed country, if that's not what you mean, then stop saying that. You think that a couple of gays getting married is going to destroy the country? Because there is so much sanctity in marriage now with our drive thru weddings and reality shows about bridezillas and who wants to marry a millionaire and wife swap. Right. And if we're so dead set on following god's will, what's up with all the multiple children due to invetro fertilization? God made you infertle, so now it's okay to go against god's will. I see.

Basically, the country is going to keep moving forward. We're going to make some changes. Some will work, some won't. But none will work for everyone. There is no one thing that is going to make 100% of the population happy. We're a mass of different people from different upbringings and different cultures. So there is always going to be an unhappy group. But for the most part, some things will change. Most things will stay the same. And the country and it's people will keep on living. And some of the problems in our country now weren't create entirely by our government. Wall Street dug it's own hole as did the auto industry. Those were huge corporations that got too greedy for their own good and didn't look to the future. Sure, the government could have changed some regulations, but ultimately it was their decisions that got them where they are.

Work hard, plan for the future and have fun whenever you can. Do those things for yourself, because nobody is going to make those things happen for you. Not the government, no matter how much you protest.