Wednesday, March 24, 2010

OUTRAGE! At My Fellow Americans

  Normally I am not one to go around spewing my political or religious view points. I generally believe that who you are as a person is reflected in the way you live and treat people. With that being said I have recently been moved to speak up regarding the mass reactions to the new healthcare bill. It has nothing to do with the bill itself but the visceral reactions that it is bringing out in people I know and even those I don't around the country.

   Let me be very clear. I do not agree with every move President Obama makes and believe in some ways he has tunnel vision  in the same manner as President Bush did.  Motives are very telling in human beings. Now that we have that out of the way let me get directly to my point:

  You people are are outraged and protesting  HEALTHCARE REFORM ?!!!!!! Seriously? HEALTHCARE?!!!!


 Are you really telling me America that all of the Tea Parties and other protests; all of the new fringe groups, all the hatred and outrage being spewed is because of HEALTHCARE REFORM? I refuse to believe that. It simply doesn't add up. You in the back! You, the same Christian Right that shows up at every Tea Party. The last time I checked Christianity is based on I dunno...Christ. Per his own words in Matthew 24:44-45: "Then they themselves will answer, Lord when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of you?" "Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me."  Now I'm not sure at this point, maybe it's just me, but the last time I checked Christ was all about helping people. Nah, I must have my Christian beliefs screwed up. Let me join you as we pray together and then go protest HEALTHCARE!

  But wait his bill is just one more step away from erroding our personal freedoms and turning this into a socialist country.

   Riiight. Let's see here.  In the past eight years we've seen the government okay  EMINENT DOMAIN. You know, that little piece of  law that allows the government  to take away private property from citizens and use it for for commercial business use because it's more profitable. That's not erroding American freedoms.  Here in my homestate of Georgia a profitable flower shop that had been in business for decades and paid taxes on time, was forced to close due to this very issue. I guess the right to keep the property you own doesn't piss America off as much as their neighbor having medical coverage.
Who Knew?

Damian,  this is just Obama's next step in forcing his agenda and slowly turning America into a dictatorship.

  Hmm... So I assume from the absolute hatred and venom being shown at the President and his agenda to push HEALTHCARE, a program that in theory is designed to help people, that you are boiling over at fact that:  We are at war with IRAQ  based on an unsubstantiated claim of NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

A LIE.

  A LIE that was backed by the very politicians who herd your anger and steer it toward HEALTHCARE.
Sorry but the math still isn't adding up. If I had a choice between helping my neighbor or going to war I figured helping my neighbor would rank higher. Maybe my values are still backwards. Where's my gun?

  I'm sure I'm forgetting something. Oh that's right. I forgot the PATRIOT ACT.  Nothing says freedom to me like the government having unfettered acces to all of my personal data, where I'm at on the internet, who I email, and who I call.
  Seriously, I believe we need parts of the Patriot Act to track down terrorists who are quite real. However, not all aspects of the Patriot Act are as flattering. If this is not a Big Brother scenario then what is? The PATRIOT ACT is closer to a fascist bill than HEALTHCARE. By design alone it gave the government more power over American citizens than ever before. But boy that HEALTHCARE bill really as got me steaming! That's it! I'm going to D.C. and give them a piece of my mind. I may even call the President a liar to his face or spit on a congressman while I'm at it. Why? Because we have a common enemy to direct our anger toward...HEALTHCARE.

 So in closing to all those outraged by the Obama administration's HEALTHCARE push I'd like to say this:

Thank You.

Thank you for showing me your true colors. Thank you for sharing your real values; the ones you share at home with your friends when you're having a cold one with your buddies and you don't have to uphold the guise of political correctness. You make me proud to live in this country because it takes all kinds.
It's about time we all got this honest about where our anger is really coming from.  Here's a hint: It aint' HEALTHCARE. My Facebook page just got  a lot smaller.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I'll respond, and try to be as honest as I can, and will probably still be branded a hater. I will try hard to limit this to health care.

I believe very strongly in free markets and that government should be involved in as few things as possible. I feel that quality doctors that have spent (or borrowed) thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars have a right to charge whatever they wish. I also think hospitals, just like the wal-mart up the street, have the right to charge whatever they want.

When I was a young man of around 20 I had two children with no health insurance. My son was two and a half before I paid off all of his birth bills! I wanted good doctors and they cost money. Instead of whining I became determined to find a job that provided me with health insurance or at least helped. I found one.

Fast forward 25 years. My parents have to hunt for a doctor who will accept medicare patients. Almost every doctor I go to has a sign saying they don't accept medicare or don't accept NEW medicare patients. The money they paid in for almost 50 years for medical care has gone to the government to be mismanaged, lost, and outright stolen (both parties). But now we are to believe that a government run health care industry (or at least tightly controlled) is the answer to our problems? Now I will not only have to watch my parents struggle to pay their medical bills even with a medicare supplement and pay my own insurance premiums, but I will have to pay higher premiums and higher taxes to pay for those who have made poor choices over the years and just never bothered to get health insurance.
We have in place places where the indigent can get health care. Is it the best? No. Can they always get the higher priced procedures done? No. Do the doctors and hospitals have a right to paid for their services and products? Yes. Should I be forced by the US government under force of prosecution and fines to pay for all these medical procedure? No. If a person cares that strongly about helping people with their medical bills they should pay them themselves or get together in organizations such as churches or other civic organizations to pay for them. I have done both, but only for people I sincerely believed needed it.

P.S. I don't believe in the patriot act. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."