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Jan
29
Don’t Write Off The Next Generation
Filed Under health care, Hillary Clinton, liberalism, Social Security Disability, socialism, The Sample Gates, township government | Comments Off
I came across an interesting post written by Indiana University student Chase Cooper in the Indiana Daily Student’s Sample Gates blog raising issues with the seemingly insurmountable push to socialize America’s medical providers.
Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone… About one in 10 hospitals already deny some surgery to obese patients and smokers, with restrictions most common in hospitals battling debt.
Remind me again why liberalism is seen as caring and compassionate?
If socialized healthcare provided by our government will be anything like all of the other government programs already providing benefits for Americans — remember the failures in the Veterans Administration, routine denials of benefits to Social Security Disability applicants, the long lines early on cold mornings in front of the Calumet Township trustee’s office, and people waiting decades for immigration papers to be processed — count me out.
It’s great to see that the future of America — the next generation — know that they are likely to get the short end of the stick if we socialize American medicine.
Nov
29
Socialism Breaks Down In Venezuela
Filed Under Election 2008, Hugo Chavez, socialism | Comments Off
Reports Simon Romero in a New York Times article titled In Chávez Territory, Signs of Dissent:
“(Hugo) Chávez is delirious if he thinks we’re going to follow him like sheep,” said Ivonne Torrealba, 29, a hairdresser in Coche who supported Mr. Chávez in every election beginning with his first campaign for president in 1998. “If this government cannot get me milk or asphalt for our roads, how is it going to give my mother a pension?”
The same things can be said about all of the plans to give away “free” things like health care and all sorts of other goodies designed to sway voters.
If we can’t afford to pay property taxes and have to raise local income taxes, will pols promising all sorts of new government expenditures really be able to live up to their promises?
