In the world of the 24-hour news cycle, news rapidly deteriorates. That is a shame. We need to take the time to think. Remember the stimulus bills and hundreds of billions spent and wasted in a rush?
We were also suppose to rush into the nationalization of our health care. Supposedly, even though most people are happy with their health care, we have a crisis. Fortunately, before our glorious leaders were able to herd and shear us like sheep, enough people wised up.
So it is I was over at Good Sense, and I came across an old post (here). Charlie had quoted the following.
It’s all about giving the state control over biggest part of our lives. That may not be the intent of the people who are advocating ObamaCare. In fact, for the most part, I think they have good intentions, but we know where that leads in the end.
The quote came from an old Below the Beltway post (here). Curious, I read the entire post. Then I read Vast‘s comment (here). Vast had provided his minimum conditions for giving up on the public option.
Disgusted, old post or not, I left this comment of my own.
Vast – Where I think you are confused is in the belief that we will get something from our government just because we will it so. Government never has worked that way. The more power we give our leaders to “help” us, the more control they have over us.
Look back over history. The normal condition for the bulk of the population in any country is slavery. The health care of slaves is at the convenience of the masters. Hence the slaves that get the best care are house slaves. Masters do so love their “pets.”
If we the People want good health care or good anything else, then we must take the time to understand what the Founders did when they wrote the Constitution. The Founders created a system of constitutional government that pitted the power brokers against each other. They divided both the Federal and state governments into executive, legislative, and judicial branches. In addition, they created a federation, pitting state governments against the Federal Government.
Finally, and this is the most important part, the Founders deliberately limited the power of government. Instead of making government responsible for everything, they let the People buy from and sell to each other in an open market place (with some regulations to ensure honest transactions). So it is we each get to choose the doctors who care for our health, the stores where we buy our bread, the house we live in, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, and so many other things.
And what works best? Where do we have to stand in long lines or wait in traffic jams? Who is more likely to arbitrarily deny us our preferences? Do the things we choose for ourselves in a free market or the things our government “gives” us cause us the most trouble and heartache?
Because of our government-run education system, it seems too many do not understand the devious nature of humanity, particularly that of the ambitious people who lead us. Otherwise, we would all understand that the so-called public option is unconstitutional. Otherwise, we would know better than to trust people who are so anxious to break their oath of office.
Anyway, if you get your public option, you had best hope one of the masters considers you and your family his pets. (from here)
Because they want what they want, and they do not understand why they cannot have it, people like Vast will not give up easily. Since he wrote his comment, he has written a post (here) reaffirming his crying and whining support for the public option, government-run health care. Vast and his like will rob us by taxing us, hand our hard earned money over to rascals, and bankrupt our nation. So get your tea bags and join the party.
Support a candidate for Congress who supports your right to run your own life. Support Keith Fimian (facebook). On the evening of September 1st, attend an open Congressional Town Hall. Let Congressman Gerry Connolly know you are fed up with his closed Congressional Town Halls.
What you don’t seem to realize is that the public option isn’t Government run health care, it’s government run health insurance. The government doesn’t give you the care, it doesn’t treat you of diagnose you. It simply creates an insurance option that forces the greed of the insurance companies to compete when they don’t want to. I don’t want a government official determining what is good for my health care anymore than I want an insurance official doing it either. Insurance companies shouldn’t be allowed to purposely kill people and ration our health care any more than the government should be able to but it’s allowed to happen now.
Vast – Run the insurance industry? One big huge monopoly insurance industry. Doesn’t that make government the paymaster for every doctor?
To have an industry under its total control, the government does not have to literally own it. With sufficient regulation, government can accomplish virtual ownership. That is the direction we are currently headed. Eventually, if this nonsense is not stopped, government will in fact own the health care industry and everything else, including our descendants.
Do you actually think the Founding Fathers actually wanted Congress writing insurance policies? In order to encourage commerce and to keep it honest, the Constitution’s commerce clause allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Unfortunately, our congressmen think that clause permits them run industries, not just regulate them.
Our leaders have already broken the firewall that protects each of us from government domination, that is, our Constitution. The Constitution never authorized Congress to fund anything like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or any other welfare program (except — and it is a stretch — perhaps to take care of veterans).
With what he proposes, Obama will worsen an already bad situation. Ironically, he proposes to fix our bankrupt welfare programs by drastically increasing the number of recipients. Since that sort of fix has been tried before, we should know better than to pay any attention.