Saturday, September 5, 2009

Must we be this scared of Obama?

http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1590670.html

Ok, maybe a slippery slope exists where we can fall from desiring simple health care reform... all the way to the government conspiring to killing our poor Grandmas, but I haven't seen it in my 38 years of living in the USA.

I get it... we are scared of repeating 1940 again. But, haven't we advanced as a society since then? Are we really so gullible as those living in Germany at that time? Wouldn't reason take over, or perhaps Fox News if we started to see documented cases that our old people were being sent to their death prematurely?

Really? We can't even talk about making our health care system better without accusations of secret death chambers in the works? I understand that big government is scary, and something to be leary of, but do we truly think that 1940 could ever happen again? Really? In this advanced age where information flows so freely and we truly are living in the age of freedom as never experienced before in human history... in this age, could Obama really be bringing back the SS and the extermination of an entire class by what he is proposing? Really?

Now, it has extended to the children. Some of our citizens have gone so far to not even want their children to listen to a speech from our elected president of these "United States" concerning the importance of staying in school and having a good education. They have demanded that their local school district NOT subject their children to this type of brain washing.

I weep along with those who wonder what happened to ideas, freedom, justice, and compassion for the less fortunate. This is what the health care debate is all about.

I speak as one of those who has pretty good coverage right now. However, I know deep down that this system can not continue as is. The number of people with "good" coverage will continue to shrink year after year... perhaps significantly. Should we really bury our heads in the sand and hope that this problem fixes itself? It seems so wrong to do so... think of the suffering that will occur by the millions of Americans if we wait until the whole system explodes and we are forced to fix the entire health care system at once. How many people will die when that happens?

So, I ask again... must we be this scared of Obama?

2 comments:

  1. Yes bob you should be. You may think we have evolved but just look outside the US. We are adopting Europe health care model and if you read about the lack of compassion and rationing of funds i think you would be shocked. America as we knew it is crumbling before our eyes. we depend too much on mother government. there are now 11 states now with more people on welfare than pay taxes.

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    1. I understand your point about dependence on government, and we should be weary of real rationing especially on healthcare concerns. My point was more about singling out Obama on being the "lightning rod" for every socialist accusation EVEN THOUGH he has governed America from a just slightly left-of-center platform.

      I could understand the ramblings from the right if Dennis Kucinich was president, but this current president of the US is NOT a true progressive. If he was, he would've gotten us out of Afghanistan by now, he would have closed Guantánamo Bay, he would have argued early on for real gun control, he would've led the healthcare reform agenda toward a single-payer model instead of leaving insurance companies in charge, and he would've started a dialogue in this country about real income inequality between the haves and have-nots.

      So, I ask again... must we be this scared of Obama?

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