Who Would Have Thunk It?

What a messed up day today is. The evil that is Beiber makes sense. Thanks to Tumblr as the source. You can always find equally bizarre stuff like this. It's not just the images anymore. I like the point the author makes.

Justin Bieber Says Americas Health-Care is ‘Evil’

I never thought I’d be congratulating a manufactured teen pop prince on his social conscience but it just goes to show that life, my dears, is strange.

Asked by Rolling Stone magazine (here) if he wanted to become an American citizen, Bieber made clear his love for Canada and its health care system.

“You guys are evil,” he told the magazine, out on February 18th. “Canada’s the best country in the world. We go to the doctor and we don’t need to worry about paying him, but here, your whole life, you’re broke because of medical bills. My bodyguard’s baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your baby’s premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.”

YES .. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes a clarity that seems beyond Americas politicians and much of its population. Clearly to anyone with a functioning brain cell Americas bloated ‘for-profit’ health-care service is broken, unfair and unfit for purpose but greedy vested interests, spending millions of dollars to preserve their obscene profits, ensured that Obama wasn’t allowed to fix it.

When this is blindingly obvious even to a 16-year old pop person with a toothy grin and silly hair, then you have to wonder why the people who suffer daily under this bizarre system allow it to continue. The power of brainwashing and propaganda I suppose .. and a corrupt political system of course .. that helps.

Its actually quite brave (or foolish) of Mr Bieber to be honest about the mess of American health-care because large numbers of Americas right-wing headbangers and their frothing-at-the-mouth political mouthpieces are always waiting for the slightest hint of criticism of their ‘perfect country’ to get vicious and try to ruin someones career. Good luck with them, Justin.

I doubt I’ll actually go as far as to listen to him sing or watch him perform. I mean, there are limits .. but three cheers for saying something honest, intelligent and genuinely risky for someone who performs in America. Well done Mr Bieber ..:)

Ellie