Dear Editor,
Most folks really don’t care much for freedom. Freedom is messy and difficult. Freedom means you are responsible for your own decisions, that you have to make good choices. Freedom means there is no one to pick you up when you fail.
Most people do not care for the down side of freedom. It is easier to let the United States government take the responsibility away from you. Let them save for your retirement. Give them the power to decide how much money you get to keep from your paycheck.
Do you even know how much you paid in taxes last year? What percentage of your work was taken by the government? The sad thing is even that wasn’t enough to sustain them. The reason they take their cut from off the top is so you won’t even feel it.
If you had to write a check to them every month you might want to hold them more accountable for how they spend it, like a kid on an allowance.
Yet every politician has a plan to make America fair. Government control is their answer. Trust them to provide free health care even though their management will destroy the very thing they want to fix. GOOD. FAST. CHEAP.
With health care, you can choose two. If it is good and fast (our current system) it won’t be cheap. If you want cheap, what will you be willing to put up with? Cheap and good can’t be fast (look at Canada and Great Britain) and you’ll end up waiting on a list for months to receive common services you can now obtain in days. Cheap and fast puts you in even more danger.
No one would put up with a third world health care system in the United States. The basic fact is it’s simpler to live in a socialist state than a capitalist republic. But socialism treats everyone not in power the same, as serfs to the State.
Capitalism means everyone has the opportunity to succeed. There is no caste system to hold us back. The down side is that sometimes we fail, but, with a little more hard work, we can try again and succeed.
We can redefine what success means to us. We also have the freedom to not try again. Don’t give up our freedom to any politician that promises ‘hope and fairness.’ Folks, we already have hope and life isn’t fair.
– G. Michael Thomas

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