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FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY, SOCIALISM, AND PROGRESSIVISM
© March 2010
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington
Dismantling Government.
As these words are being written, the Congress of the United States is debating major healthcare legislation that, if passed, would “fundamentally” transform a significant enough portion of our economy to cast our beloved Constitutional Republic into the cauldron of failed nanny states. We the great citizens of this nation, will become enslaved to the desires of progressive socialists such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid, and President Barack Obama amongst their own anti-American manipulators. If our present leadership held no intentions of controlling your every thought and action, they would not be trying to empower the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with the ability to 1.) fine you for not possessing health insurance coverage; and 2.) making the decision whether your health insurance is adequate enough. If the proposed health reform legislation will not raise your income taxes, then why are the tax people the ones being charged with enforcing said legislation?
Think about it for a moment, folks. Under the premise of providing health insurance, the federal government – our servant – is orchestrating a “fearful” mastering of your health care. I know what it is like to lose a spouse to a horrifying disease when we possessed no health insurance. We had to give up our car and travel one hundred miles each way to gain her treatment via public transportation. I had to take a relatively menial job as a forklift driver at $9.35/hr before taxes and pay a woman $8/hr after taxes to sit with Sara during the eight to ten hours per day that I could not be there. I knew what it is like to panic every time I received a telephone call at the production office. I knew what it was like to console my wife on the day that the doctors told her that there was nothing else they could do for her – that the cancer had spread into her lymph nodes and was escalating throughout her body. And, friends, I certainly know what it was like to hear her death rattle and watch that unrecognizably deformed figure that heretofore had been my beautiful wife zipped up into a body bag and removed from our living room. Despite these innumerable hardships and pains, Sara was still treated both professionally and courteously. Our lack of health insurance did not change this one iota and there was no perceivable difference from 2001 when I possessed magnificent coverage through General Electric and in 2003 when I had to scratch, claw, and fight my way through life.
In 2008, I again found myself serving as caregiver to a dying family member. This time, it was my father who was deteriorating due to Alzheimer‟s disease – an illness that destroyed his mind inasmuch as throat cancer destroyed Sara‟s body. My dad was a retired United Auto Workers (UAW) employee who spent my entire childhood (continue reading, pdf here)
