Who really gets outraged over politics and global events?

I'll be honest. I actually do some of those things during certain politically flavored editorial shows. I actually get angry when I listen to how some people try to exploit global events for political advantage.

I keep tuning in because it's one of the few things I actually feel passionate about anymore.

Only on one issue, health care. With the passage of Obamacare, my insurance rates necessarily went up by over a third or, in dollar terms, by about $6,000 a year. And, given the fact that I get absolutely nothing for my $6,000, yeah, I was and remain supremely ticked off. $6,000 is the cost of a year in college here in Virginia. This is the sort of thing people save for or take loans out for, but now, with great fanfare, the Demcrats have imposed an additional $6,000 a year cost on me. And the thing is, college ends. Health care doesn't. I'll be having to pay this $6,000 for the rest of my life or drop my health coverage, which isn't an option, but may have been part of his plan all along.

And I say 'necessarily' because insurance companies had no choice. You can't add extraordinary new requirements and taxes to insurance and not have them raise their rates. They have to. Businesses don't survive operating at a loss.

Obamacare was supposed to lower health care costs and increase accessibility. It did not. It dramatically raised the cost of health care and the related insurance and in doing so further limited access. Obama bragged that we now cover 95% of Americans and yet before Obamacare was implemented, we covered...wait for it...95% of Americans.

So, yeah. I get outraged. I'm still outraged.

UPDATE: Thumbs down? Seriously? So you're saying I should be pleased by this insidious piece of legislative dog crap? I would love to hear your rationalization. Feel free to drop me a line and convince me how happy I should be.

I'm often very disturbed by global and political events, but have only been truly outraged a few times. If I'm not so "outraged" that I'm ready to lace up my sneakers and hit the streets marching, I redefine my feelings and admit that I'm simply disturbed by events.

The "sense of outrage" grows with actual knowledge of the world.

My dinner table is free of it because 6'2" and 6'4" fascists will

take me out for it. The fact that you see no body language indicating anger

and the fact that my voice can never raise to an alarm is

a learned convention - from years in the USA.

If I act as though there could be a personal stake in anything besides my own money I can be dismissed as -

crazy, angry, communist, empathetic, compassionate or green- or female.

Dismissed is not heard and proven false- or as good as proven false-

BCAUSE YOU CARE.

When among friends- I don't have to LIE to finish a sentence- but

among Americans I always will.

I have a few times, only because I have no life

Hulk smash

there are a few extremsists who do, but overall, it's a very small and crazy part of the population...

this is "outrageous", http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-ki...