Shush everybody, you are getting on my last nerve.

During however long this fight over health care reform has been going on, I have largely been quiet about the subject. Now that it seems to be headed for make or break I will say this: Yipppiiiieeee!!!

I have become so sick of the left and the right and the in between and the media obsessing over this issue that I just want everyone to shut the f**k up!

People have been getting themselves so worked up in a frenzy with their knickers all in a knot that they don’t realize just to what extent they are being manipulated — by all sides. The left, the right, the insurance companies, the medical industry, the media have all gotten people so stirred up that they don’t know what they are fighting for or against anymore.

We have a right and we should be passionate about something that so affects our lives. But we have to stop and ask ourselves just what it will do to our lives if provisions a, b or c of this legislation are passed or what happens if it isn’t enacted. So much of the rhetoric is just that, rhetoric. It’s BS that is aimed more at destroying each other’s political parties or stuffing the pockets of the lobbies whichever side is courting or already receiving their generosity.

I go back to that scene last year where the woman was at a congressional town hall meeting said: “I just want my country back.”

I have to ask: Where did your country go lady? Do you really mean what you are saying or is that just some words provided for you to use because you don’t really know what is going on but you know you aren’t for the Democratic side because of Obama, plus somebody told you you should be out raising hell and you had it reinforced by Fox News. The Democrats are just as guilty. I got an e-mail from Obama’s organization today saying I should call my congressman to tell him I support this reform and they even gave me a suggested script.

It’s  not going to happen though. The main reason is because my congressman is Ted Poe, who I consider to be on the far right fringe of the Republican Party. I am not going to waste my breath or a phone call to his office.

Look, I support the reform. I approve much or most of what has been proposed. Some of the proposals stink. I just don’t think that the world is going to end with whatever outcome happens. I don’t think we will become some new incarnation of the Soviet Union with its passage nor will we all be overcome with a virulent incurable disease if it doesn’t pass.

That isn’t to say that our health care situation won’t become worse without the passage of reform. I hardly think it will get better by itself.

I think Obama and the Democrats are right for taking on this issue and fighting for its success. There are scores of issues that need to be acted upon, but like putting off that project at work or procrastinating on that school paper, those things don’t get the attention they need until the last minute or it is too late. For an example I would look at our current financial mess.

There is so much that needs to be done in this country and I am talking big things! Among those are infrastructure, making sure water remains available in the future, I could go on and on.  So I am hoping this passes and people will just be quiet about it for a while. I also know that is the last thing that is going to happen.