Politics alert, I'm back on the soap box

Alright, so I've said before that I really don't want this blog to be about politics... or at least not about me going off about the things I think. At the same time I think information is key, and as part of this I feel like if I find something useful, you all might find it useful too. I want to link to this debate. This was put on by a group called intelligence squared I think this is really informative. I'm not going to lie if you want to read the transcript it's over eighty pages, so if you're serious about this you'll need to set aside a good thirty minutes to an hour if you're going to read it (It's a transcript, so eighty pages will go quickly. At the same time bits of it are a somewhat technical so you may spend five minutes on one page and thirty seconds on the next). The debate deals with one of the key issues of the election, and one of the issues I feel that I understand least, health insurance. I really feel this debate is ideal to link to for me personally, because I feel both sides were well represented. I'm familiar with the work of several of the people who were involved, and I can tell you that even though I don't agree with them all that these are intelligent people. I know that everybody is busy, and as an economics major I might be more into this than the average American, but this is really time well spent to become informed on something like this. Like I've said before this is your money and your health (two things aspects of life I consider to be on the top of my list in importance) that are being debated. As far as the comments... I'm not sure if you guys will want to use those to express your opinions of the debate itself, or health insurance in general or what. I feel like as part of the blog I would prefer to leave my own opinions out, but that doesn't mean anyone reading this has to.

Also, I would encourage you to tell friends/co-students/workers, etc... any one you know who has an interest in politics at all to visit the Music Snobs(to get the link, or send them their directly to the site). I feel the information is that good, and would like to hear other people's impressions from the debate too. Hope you can all take time to look into this.