I have been thinking a lot lately about politics and all the things that are happening in our country right now, and I have this urge to write about how I've been feeling. The first thing on my mind of course is the nationalized health care that is currently in the works. I don't understand how our entire governmental body can think that this is something that will benefit the people of this great country. Honestly, I don't really believe they think that at all because I don't think that the people who are supposed to be representing us care what we think anymore, which isn't completely all their own doing. I believe that we as a people have gotten careless. We had become complacent. I know that I used to hate politics. I never watched presidential debates. I never watched State of the Union addresses or really even paid any attention to what was going on in the political arena. I hated listening to political advertisements because all I ever heard was the mudslinging and the defamation of character. I could never decipher the real issues that were supposedly being debated. I also didn't really feel like it made a difference what I thought. I never thought that at one point in the future the government--our representatives-- wouldn't care about me or my family or what was best for the citizens. But of course, that is the natural course of things, isn't it? The less the people care and are concerned with what the government is doing, the less it is accountable for the actions it takes. Now, that they are taking actions that are threatening the future of our country, we are starting to come out of the woodwork and take a stand. I am grateful for this, but maybe, just maybe, some of this could have been avoided had we been more involved and held our representatives accountable for the choices they made before now.
But I digress. My initial point was to talk about the health care plan that some of our "representatives" are trying to pass. I really have no idea who this plan is supposed to help. I understand that there are people in the US who don't have health care, many because they choose not to have it. (That choice may be realized or not by the person making it.) I also realize that there may be some who are not receiving the care they need, but are we really blind enough to believe that nationalized health care is the answer? When you have to purchase private insurance on top of the "coverage" the government provides, it's obviously not working. This is true for France and Canada and even here in the US with Medicare. When someone has to pay through taxes for his/her own family's health care plus the health care of another family or two or three or four, is that fair? Is that how our government, our society is supposed to work? Whose plan was it to force us to heaven? Whether you believe in God or not, do you really think that the best way to accomplish something is by forcing someone to do it? Is that going to make any party involved happier or more responsible? I can guarantee you, it will not. It never will. And that is exactly what this program is doing. It is trying to make us less responsible for ourselves and more dependent on the government for everything. In case you're wondering, that has NEVER worked in any civilization in any time period of the world, AND it NEVER WILL WORK! In order for any civilization, country, community to survive, it must be founded on principles of free will and agency. The people must want to do good and choose to do good to benefit everyone in the group. It cannot be forced.
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