American Missive

Posted in Current Events, Health Care Reform, Politics | Tagged Health Care Reform, Ronald Reagan | 10 Comments

10 Responses

1. on August 14, 2009 at 5:25 pm | Reply Ruby

   I miss you Ronnie…
   America is no more

   
   
   • on August 16, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Reply Stephen VanNuys

     I hear you, Ruby. Sometimes it feels that way. I’m an optimist though. I think the people are pushing back against this most recent encroachment and it may be changing the shape of the debate over healthcare in Washington, according to news reports today. Hurry for that!

     
     
2. on August 14, 2009 at 6:23 pm | Reply marsha

   The greatest nation on earth is finally buckleing at the knees, and its own people are doing it. Wait a minute, BA hasnt proved he is one of us yet.

   
   
   • on August 16, 2009 at 3:06 pm | Reply Stephen VanNuys

     Marsha – I’m actually not in the boat of people who believe BO is not American. There are numerous news reports saying that one of the major Hawaiian newspapers has a birth announcement for Barack from the early 1960′s. That’s tough to fabricate. They also have a birth certificate of some variety. He was born in America, I think that’s fairly hard to overcome. The problem was, he was raised in liberal environments and has spent his whole life surrounded by liberal academics and liberal government officals and has no idea about the importance of free markets, and of freedom in general, to the long-term health and sustainability of this country. He is taking us on a ruinous path at present, as he slowly educates himself about these matters by making us learn from his mistakes. We’ve got to stop him and beat him back at every turn. But we’ve also got to support him when he makes the right decisions. I’m hopeful on healthcare, he will retract the more liberal components of his plans and make much more limited (and helpful) reforms that we can all agree on. Healthcare needs reform- but reform does not equal socialization of the system.

     
     
3. on August 14, 2009 at 6:24 pm | Reply Tucker

   Our country is FREE alright, but our freedoms are gone

   
   
   • on August 16, 2009 at 3:07 pm | Reply Stephen VanNuys

     We are definitely headed in that direction, if we don’t speak up and fight back…

     
     
4. on August 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm | Reply Pete Cutler

   President Regan certainly deserved the title, The Great Communicator”. We will most likely never see his equal again.

   The current argument is really not about health care or insurance, it is about the implementation of a statist form of government. Obama cannot accurately be labeled a “socialist”; to reach his statist goal he will utilize the Marxist indoctrination that he pursued in his youth and that he has transformed into a far-left “progressive” agenda to achieve the power that he craves, for power is the ultimate goal for him and his radical-packed administration. Socialism at least makes a pretense of working for the common good (although it is the most easily corrupted form of government).

   The goal of the statist is to achieve centralized control of society. George Orwell pictured this well in “1984″ and Aldous Huxley expanded upon the nightmare in “Brave New World” and the “Island”.

   The attainment of unrestrained power is generally preceded by deterioration in ethical and moral behavior, relativism and abandonment of the rule of law.

   Sound familiar?

   
   
   • on August 16, 2009 at 3:08 pm | Reply Stephen VanNuys

     I agree somewhat, Pete. I may not be of the pursuation that Obama is an out-and-out Marxist, but he’s definitely influenced somewhat by the same set of ideas that influenced Marx (about “fairness,” about the ability of government to solve man’s basic problems, etc. etc.). I think Obama is an intelligent, articulate man. I just think his instincts and his policy initiatives are largely dead-wrong.

     
     
   • on August 26, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Reply Ella Whitsitt

     Amen. I agree with your comments, Pete. Life IS NOT FAIR. We work for whatever we want in life and help those who can’t help themselves~not those who can help themselves & choose not. Those who don’t want to put in the effort should not expect to ride on other people’s coattails. (Little Red Hen story). Our Constitution was written to guarantee that we have the freedoms to “pursue” happiness, so rising above whatever life throws one’s way is a personal endeavor. What phase of childhood development does the “THAT’S NOT FAIR” mentality fall under? I don’t remember, because I’ve been working too hard for the last 40-some years earning my own way.

     
     
5. on August 16, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Reply Stephen VanNuys

   Man- what a good post. That audio is dead-on. This is exactly what the public option was about for liberals- one more foot in the door towards the government deciding for us what is “fair.” Get us hooked on this program, and they could go anywhere. And where they would take is a lack of freedom and inevitable fiscal ruin.