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From  Cradle To Grave

 
Nations standards of civilisation  
Are based on its treatment of unfortunates.  
Its sense of community responsibility is based  
On its willingness to share and resolve community issues.  
Health care should not be reliant on how much money you have.  
With the best of treatments only available to the wealthy.  
As a double through the knee amputee, I cannot afford to get prosthetics
That are only available to the wealthy therefore I am forever unable to walk,  
Despite not being a criminal this is my punishment, my curse and  
The guilt of this nation unfelt.  
 
A pay to play health care system is barbaric  
In its very foundation and fascistic in its delivery.  
This is not a matter of left or right it is a matter of humanitarianism,  
It denotes how and what we are as a nation and the USA is a failure,
A failed state, a so-called Christian country with the morals of slave owners.  
Fascists to the left and fascists to the left money and power indecent  
To the vast majority of normal working people  
Successive corrupt governments of whatever persuasion  
Are corrupt to their very core and people will be always left  
To suffer and scream in the dark. The UK is no better,  
Ripping welfare and healthcare out of the price range of those most in need.  
Even criminals, drug dealers, pimps, and paedophiles can afford  
Better healthcare the honest working man, Britain another fascistic  
Failed Christian country as is most of what the call western civilisation,  
Not very Christ like.  
 
If you deny proper healthcare to those in need  
You are theses peoples owners they are reliant  
On your fascistic greed for more power and more money,  
The unfortunates are those you make to suffer the unnecessary  
Suffering as you wash your hands in their blood.  
Free health care its original conception  
"Free at the point of need from the cradle to the grave."  
Not something, you are willing to share your collective responsibility in,  
You rail against it in your pathetic ways, and I wonder  
If Jesus charged per healing miracle, I very much doubt that.
It is strange that Christian countries are the least Christ like.  
A plague on all your houses.  
So endeth the lesson,  
Delivered by, an atheist, and humanist  
With more Christ like attitudes than  
Many Christians do.  
Amen?
Written by David_Macleod (14397816)
Published | Edited 9th May 2019
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