Health care: It depends on what your definition of ‘man’ is
Published 11:03 am Monday, April 12, 2010
Letters and columns appearing lately contain discussion about the role of government and particularly the government takeover of health care. Writings indicate many do not understand our founding documents or the values and worldview of those who guided our national character for 200 years. One writer even asked to know what an American man was. I will explain. First, it requires a certain amount of testosterone. That capability is sacrificed, however, when one submits to socialism. After a couple of decades of liberalism feminizing the males I am not surprised that some are confused about men’s traits, particularly on Bainbridge Island, the only community to boo U.S. Marines marching in a parade.
The humor and good-natured jabbing aside, the question “What is a man?” is pertinent to our time and the writer did a service by posting it. We have a president who has vowed to transform America because he has a disdain for the American virtues of individual liberty, achievement, reward and responsibility. He stated that the Constitution is fundamentally flawed because it didn’t grant rights to groups of people.
Americans might survive the damage caused by the control freaks currently in power. America cannot survive a population of kept citizens. Politicians like Sherry Appleton who claim they are better able to make decisions for your life than you are should be fired immediately. We are at a critical point when Vice President Joe Biden calculates there is no political danger in describing the health care takeover as, “Some all it forced redistribution; I just call it being fair.”
Humbled acceptance of the socialist agenda, just because President Barack Obama was elected by the majority vote, is the kind of groveling and cowering that no real American will permit. Should any thinking person need reminding that Hitler also was elected by a majority of voters? Had there been enough real men to take a stand for liberty then, we wouldn’t have to spend half a million lives of America’s best liberating Europe from that dictator. So the majority vote is sometimes wrong. We need the wisdom to know when to recall our mistakes, and the character to preserve by the ballot box our American heritage that has been bequeathed to us at such great cost.
David Simpson
Kingston
