In his final speech before the health care reform bill vote in the House of Representatives, President Obama pleaded that it was our responsibility as a nation to supply others with a route, to “give them a pathway to success and give them a ladder into the middle class.” So that we can “spread the wealth around” we need to keep on giving. I have two questions.
1. Is it “giving” when someone “takes” it from you and transfers your “gift” to another?
2. What is wrong with the thought of “get out of my way and I’ll get it myself?”
Here is my big pitch. I believe that every human being, every American is “entitled” to water wings and training wheels. To a familial cocoon of support until such time that we are ready to fly on our own. How many 26 year old’s do you see still riding their bikes with balancing wheels? How many adults do you see swimming with “floaties” on their arms? It’s ridic. If you brake your leg do you keep your cast and crutches long after you’ve outgrown their support?
You want a human mind to learn, grow and prosper? Know when to leave it alone and make it dependent on itself, not co-dependant on you. If your goal is to truly help another human being, really, meaningfully aid them, why would you ever continue to coddle them until such point as their mind, their drive, their very belief in themselves atrophies. How is that beneficial? How is that humanitarian? A coddled mind never flourishes, it only falters.
What’s the old saying? “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime.”
What steams so many people about the liberals enabling point of view is “help always equals handouts.” That’s the sad masquerading malevolence of the liberal position.
Funny thing; liberals seldom liberate the very human minds they boast and brag about helping. Entitlements hurt everyone, especially those they are intended to help.
A martial arts master of mine once told me that “Compassion, in order to be compassion, sometimes shows its teeth.” If you have a 26 year old at home that still needs your help with insurance, kick them the hell out!
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Jeff – check your grammar….. “commonly phrases” and “dangerous risk things”? Anyway, I’m a poster child of who the Libs are trying to ‘help’ – retired due to disability, wife is an immigrant, who happens to be going blind and I’m unemployed and do not have health insurance……. This Bill sucks and is NOT right: it is extra-constitutional and as Brian pointed out, has nothing to do with helping, but seizing power. I’ll do what it takes to take care of my family and I don’t need slimy politicians ‘helping’ me.
Jeff you are so un informed. Ignorance is no excuse for stupidity. We did not need to reform the best Health care in the county. We needed to inforce the quality and care. We needed to crack down on the insurance fraud, and theft. Insurance companies will fall. Doctors will quit working, when they can no longer make money and work for themselves. Ther e will be less students going to college to become doctors. There will be no money in it. I have been uninsured for 6 years and paid for my medical care out of my bocket. I had no problem being reponsible for myself. Hope, Faith and Charity. Jeff you really need to get some clearity in your life. God surround you with his love.
Jeff,
Thanks for your comment. How this law protects “American consumers from the insurance companies” is still beyond me. Perhaps, someone as scholarly as yourself can spell it out for an idiot like me. How, Dr. Jeff, does this law help with tort reform, transportability, and those who will be forced to “purchase” health care if they are found to be lacking? Someone as learned as yourself can surely make short work of detailing for me how it takes over 2000 pages of add-ons to achieve the protections you so passionately seek. Before I let you go, how will “helping the uninsured” by placing them on a bankrupt Medicaid system work out for all of us in the end? Since I will now be using you as my “go to intellectual” on this topic, how much more can your state afford to keep Medicaid afloat?
-Brian
You’re an idiot. I like your use of commonly phrases, good way to divert people’s attention from the real issue of protecting American consumers from the insurance companies. People don’t take dangerous risks things just because they know they can get patched up. If that were true the current health system wouldn’t be viable. The majority of people this bill will help aren’t 26 year old kids living at home collecting welfare. This is for all the people who the insurance companies turn down because they were born with a condition and for the people who were turned down because they were deemed to have a preexisting condition. The current system is not about making people well, its about making people MONEY!
Perhaps you should stop using fox news as your only source of information.
-Jeff