Postby dolfan » September 17th, 2009, 7:43 am
They're not being shut out of anything. How much money do these people -- that you say are shut out of health care -- spend on non-essential things? And, how many of them who are being "shut out" would spend on health care insurance if, Wal-Mart for example, paid them more money? How much of their last raise was set aside toward health care or health insurance?
What you insist upon is that employers must do this for employees because they can't or won't do it for themselves AND that employers must be REQUIRED to do it. That's not compassion, it is compulsion. It is antithetical to American liberty and usurps to the federal government authority that it is not given in the Constitution (at least as it was applied prior to 1937 and FDR's thuggish court-packing threats). Government compulsion to redistribute wealth in order to govern the personal choices of its citizens and to force a standard of welfare upon them that they would not otherwise inure to themselves is socialism. It is no better than Chinese communism, no better than Russian communism. There was a time in this nation when to hold such views as yours would put you in stead with the likes of Gus Hall and Angela Davis, former Communist Party USA leaders and presidential candidates. Hall said in 1996 that, "Socialism in America will come through the ballot box." Well, he was wrong. Now it is being advocated also by the church if we're to hear your plaintive cry that we have a duty before God to provide for every American's health care.
If people want health care and are able to work, then they can buy their own coverage. The biggest obstacle to it is cost. Cost being the beast that it is, it can be reduced substantially in a number of ways other than setting up a government program to wastefully and corruptly mismanage about 1/5 or more of our GDP, than to confiscate private wealth against the the will of those who own and create it, than to bureaucratically fumble the micromanagement of personal conduct and private choice and desires. If this bill or anything remotely like it, including ANY tax on health care benefits or ANY requirement to get insured or get penalized/fined, passes and becomes law, then the era of liberty in our nation is over. This is the last wall between individual liberty and governmental power. Once breached, we're history.
That is precisely why I call this matter a war. It is a just war, one that grave sacrifices may be necessary to wage, or else we will just accept that we are no longer our own masters but are serfs to the federal government and its bureaucrats and those who gain the most power from its actions.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).
That's preposterous! I had workers that I allowed to sit around daily and study their college materials, etc... This made them happy, but not better workers for my company. To the contrary, it increased my own work load many times. In a nutshell, I paid them and did their work for them many a day.
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