During this holiday
season, I again find myself most thankful for individual freedom and rights.
Unfortunately, our political leaders have forgotten our past and have shown
little respect for either.
Fortunately, there is
an inkling of hope with the recent unraveling of ObamaCare. And I am not simply
being political when I say that. Consider what there is to be thankful for in
this case.
1. Virtually everything that the opposition said was
bad about this legislation is being revealed as truth; e.g. government control
of HC will breed corruption and cronyism, individuals will not necessarily be
able to keep their previous insurance policies, costs will not be reduced, etc.
2. HC cannot be
considered a right, and attempting to make it so for altruistic and egalitarian
reasons is immoral. Also note that every problem ObamaCare was supposed to fix
was caused by government controls, not free markets. The unraveling will
hopefully lead to rational HC reforms.
3. Everything that
ObamaCare was intended to accomplish was with evil motives: redistribution of
wealth, control of the economy, destruction of the middle class and small
businesses, increased union power, etc. This could wake people up to the
broader statist agenda.
4. President Obama is
being revealed as the liar and narcissist many have known him to be. He does
not care if he violates the rights of doctors, patients, insurers and the lives
of millions of Americans. His statist/Marxist ideology trumps all. Hopefully, enough
people will realize that, Republicans will win the Senate next year and make it
impossible for him to do further damage.
Understand that
rights exist in order for man to be selfish (yes, that “evil” word of which each person is “guilty”
whenever he acts in his best interest), not to be sacrificed: they
sanction those actions that enable each individual to sustain his own live and
achieve happiness. Let’s be thankful for those rights we still retain and work
together to regain those we have lost.
