Name:Rares Country:United States State:California Metro:San Diego
Interests:Living life, philosophizing about random things, sitting up all night wondering why I do no work and let my GPA drop, depression, happiness, and everything in between, computers, cars, geeky stuff, movies, media, politics, Republican bashing and anything that entertains me...I am the poster child of the echo generation, short attention spans and instant gratification are my mantras. Expertise:Enjoying the perpetual student life and avoiding the real world. Trying to come up with money making world-takeover schemes. Finishing up my master's degree Occupation:Student Industry:Computers (Software)
And we still have no real news...except the Daily Show. This is what news should be, but apparently the mainstream networks are too afraid to present people with real facts...instead, they talk about a lot of nothing.
New house, new year, new room mates, and potentially a lot of new fun to be had. That's right, the beginning of a new school year and the dawn of the party house, which will be broken in this following Saturday night - if you want to come party, let me know!
I know I haven't been very updateive (would be nice if that was a verb) but lately I have a lot of things on my mind which I want to rant about.
Tonight's rant will be about proposition 79. Here in California, we love our propositions. I'm a officially a California resident by the way, so now I can say things like "us Californians" and get away with it. So basically, this is up for voting in the November elections. The proposition gives individuals with no medical insurance who make less than $38k a year (or familiies of 4 that make less than $77k) discounts on prescription medication. According to the Los Angeles times, this would cover about 8 to 10 million Californians.
Also, to make matters worse, there's proposition 78, whose language sounds just like that of 79, except it's backed by the drug companies and has no provisions for holding them responsible for providing these discounts. Moreover, under 79, which is backed by consumer groups, drug companies can be sued for profiteering.
I saw an ad on Fox claiming that this would cost california up to $500 million dollars. The ad asked "Who's going to pay for this?" How about the multi-billion dollar drug companies?
We need more corporate responsability in America. I hate people who claim that holding corporations responsible is communist. Under communism everyone is supposed to be equal. In our country, everyone is very far from being equal, and the income divide has grown in the past 30 years. I'm just trying to make sure that the bottom 10, 20, 30 percent can still survive, that's all.
Also the key of the proposition game is that if both propositions pass, the one with the most votes takes effect. So basically 78 was put there by the drug companies to distract votes from 79. Fun stuff.
Another thing I don't understand is how so many Republicans vote against their own interest on tax issues. It's pretty obvious that the tax cuts only benefit the top percentages, and yet I see college students, and pretty much any republican get horny and wet every time the word "tax cut" is mentioned. It's amazing to me. You know what they all say? That they're going to be in that top 1% one day. I think they should wake up and realize that only 1% are in the top 1%.
Here I am in bed, on finals week. I had two finals, two projects, and four homeworks due. Currently, I have one project and 3 homeworks due. To bed with me.
