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by M. Sidney Wallace

After my last essay I received a couple of comments I found very interesting.

Harold wrote:
”Our country will be even more in debt and bankrupt rebuilding Haiti and Afghanistan, but there are thousands in America who are starving, can't pay their bills.” 

I responded with:  I am sorry but I just do not believe this.  There are just too many governmental programs to keep anyone from starving.  Why are Americans considered over weight by the medical community in America? If an individual is starving, then it is because that individual has chosen to starve.  That is a personal choice that that the government has no business continuing to get more involved in a private citizen’s life.

Jack wrote:
“Something tells me you would be the first one standing in line to get your handout if god forbid, you lost your job and or your health insurance company denied you in the time of your pain or need...”

To Jack I responded with:  Sorry Jack I have left several jobs and terminated my health care insurance voluntarily.  I have lived for decades without any health care insurance and paid my own bills as they arose.  When I left a job I always found another, and better, one to replace it.

Jack also wrote:
“Every human living in this Country deserves the dignity of basic shelter, food and health care."

To this I responded with:   I totally disagree with this statement.  I do not want to parse your words, but the word deserve is totally incorrect and the source of our problems.  Deserve used as a transitive verb means:  to be worthy of merit,  or as an intransitive verb:  to be worthy, fit, or suitable for some reward

If you wish to freely volunteer to provide food, clothing, shelter and health care to anyone that is a free choice you have made.  There is nothing ordained by God that says anyone is worthy of your generosity. This is a choice you make freely.  On the other hand if I do not wish to freely volunteer to provide something to another then that is a free choice I have made.  In neither case has the recipient done anything to deserve the benefit. 

Would you say that a healthy, educated 21 year old male that does not want to get up and go to work each morning, deserves to sleep in your bed and eat your lunch?  Would you say that an able bodied, educated young girl deserves to sleep off her hangover while your wife cleans your home and cooks your dinner?  Whenever something is provided to someone, then it must be taken from another in the first place.  Spreading the wealth around is socialism, pure and simple.

I have no problem with disaster aid to Haiti, or donating to my church or civic causes that I choose.  The key here is it is my free choice and not mandated as a reward to someone else for simply breathing the air.  Basic shelter, food and health care are always available to anyone that is willing to work for them.

  

Readily available facts have no impact on individuals that choose to wear emotional blinders.

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A Real Plan

by Sid Wallace,

The Progressive Socialist plans to destroy the American free markets are consistently failing at the voting booth.  Commissar Obama is experiencing setbacks in every precinct where offered.  The radical socialist plans are an abysmal failure. The Democrat Party is in a state of total disarray as what to do.  

The number one cry from the Progressive Socialists that are trying to take over the American government is: Where is the Republican Plan?  They complain that the Republicans and Tea Party individuals simply want to complain and are afraid to offer any plans. 

If we look closely at the rational of their complaint we see that the Progressive Socialist of the Democrat Party cannot accept that any person can succeed on his or her own.  They think that only a government plan cans solve the nation’s economic problems.  They want the conservatives to offer their plan for a government solution to the nation’s problems. 

What these Progressive Liberals and Republicans In Name Only (RINO) cannot grasp is that by not offering a big government plan they are offering a better plan in reality.   This better plan includes allowing each family to determine what is best for themselves. 

One size does not fit all.  America was built on an individual free market.  Americans have and will continue to pay premium prices for specific goods and services simply because they decided the items better suited their needs.  

If an individual has no insurance, then they must accept that they will only receive minimal life saving emergency services and that is all.   If the big benevolent government bureaucrat stops wasting taxpayer’s money on indefinite medical support for a non-insured person then the cost for emergency services will go down.

The fanatical Progressives and RINOs continue to push for their green movement.  Their propaganda is questionable at best.  The net results of their actions are increases in unemployment and a higher cost of living for everyone in the nation.   Conservatives want a clean environment just like everyone else.  They simply believe that destroying the nation’s economy is not the way to accomplish it.  

Would you enjoy filling your gas tank with gasoline at $1 a gallon? It is the socialist in government planning that make it cost two or three times more.   

Would you enjoy having your electricity bill at one third of its current level?  It is the socialist in government planning that make it cost two or three times more.  

Would you enjoy purchasing your family’s health insurance at one third the cost?  It is the socialist in government planning that make it cost two or three times more. 

All of our national economic problems can be traced to excessive governmental waste and regulation.  The conservatives plan is simply to eliminate the socialist government from our daily lives and let Americans get back to taking care of themselves in whichever way works best for them. 

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