Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, November 23, 2009 2:56:02 PM
I am often suspicious these days of "crisis situations" discussed on the evening news these days, for often they turn out to be more "red-herrings" than anything else. The mortgage crisis pushed by congress last year was used as the motivational force behind the stimulus plan. Today our economy is stalled, (but not tanking) but only about 10% of the 878 billion spent in the stimulus bill has actually been spent and of the 10% spent very little has been capable of growing jobs. In fact so few jobs were created that the government is forced to look for "jobs saved" in order to not be embarrassed by the truth of how little it has done.
Back in April and May when the swine flu (now called H1N1 so as to not belittle pigs) much as made of this "pandemic" in the news. Some said this was mostly to take our attention away from the stimulus bill and the taking over of major US companies like GM and Chrysler. It seemed that the flu had run its course and it had not turned into the pandemic is was played out to be. But then comes August and September, and now Congress is fighting of all things the takeover of health-care in our country. What is needed now, to them, is a crisis in the health-care industry to force us to hand over our freedoms once more to them. You can't turn on the evening news anymore without their being 2 or 3 reports on the flu crisis and the inability to get vaccines to the at-risk-groups of the very young and very old. I am sure the arguments for government run health-care will be: "The un-insured are the most "at-risk" group in America. We need the public-option (ie Obama-Care) to stop this group from dying in the streets from the H1N1 flu! Past it NOW ... It's an EMERGENCY!"
But the counter arguments for these absurde ideas are:
- Obama-Care doesn't even start handing out care until 2013. So unless H1N1 has a very long gestation period, you're screwed!
- If government (which is already in charge of handling the H1N1 flu) cannot take care of one VERY small aspect our our health-care industry, who in their right mind thinks they can run all of our health-care?
- Unless we are going to expand Health-care to illegal immigrants (and the world for that matter), passing the public optional will do very little if anything from stopping the flu's advancement
We must face the fact that we are playing poker with a master of deception, who has bluffed his way to the top. It's now time to start calling his bluff and stand up to these fake crisis situations. Of course they will ague that our position will cost thousands their lives. But so did the decisions of Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hancock etc.. Their decision to call King George's bluff cost thousands their lives, but gave millions their freedom. I am will to take that chance.... are you? I hope and pray you are!