Please please, before we move on, take just a moment to note the ultimate horrible irony of the title of this post.

Done?

Ok. I just got this in an email:

Dear Friends,

Please sign the following urgent petition to Congress and Pres. Obama telling them to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase health care insurance. The newly introduced Senate health care bill DISALLOWS undocumented immigrants from purchasing insurance even with their own money. This is an inhumane, deplorable, and unacceptable policy that we must vehemently oppose.

Please lend your voice to this very important effort.

In Solidarity,

Efrén Paredes, Jr./Tlecoz Huitzil

Petition Link:

http://healthcare.change.org/actions/view/allow_undocumented_immigrants_to_purchase_health_care#

Honestly, this whole health care debate is exhausting me. Over and over and over again, our public “representatives” seem to be deliberately searching for a way fuck me/us over in the most heinous and despicable ways possible. It’s weird how something that is supposed to be about making people safer and healthier requires a good beating before hand.

Needless to say, even if we can defeat this measure, it will be a largely symbolic victory. Undocumented immigrants don’t have the greatest paying jobs in the world–and poor people can always find better things to spend their money on than problems that may or may not happen in the future. Couple this “pay for their own health insurance” crap with the “pay a steep fine” crap that will surely come up again once immigration reform gets put back on the table…and what we have is basically debt peonage run and controlled by the U.S. government.

It’s weird how this clip is the only that can get a smile out of me at the moment.