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NOT SO FAST, people!! The battle is not over. I repeat....IT IS NOT OVER. This is nothing more than rhetoric to get us to shut up...to get us to think that we've won....to get us to think that they will actually concede. Do you think that they would so easily back down on something the left has wanted since the days of FDR??? Until this bill is TAKEN OFF THE TABLE COMPLETELY, and until a sweeping reform comes to the House and Senate...and I mean getting these dirty rotten Washington elite OUTA THERE....this bill or something like it will resurface again, and again, and again. It sounds silly to be saying this....but they WANT us to be out there celebrating our "victory"....when in fact they will use this distraction to push a few more things through!!! My message here: simply keep watch. This is not over yet.
It's not about creating another option to stir up diversity in the plethora of insurance choices. It's NEVER been about simply creating another choice. Even if they take the public option out of the equation (allbeit, for NOW), the government mandates, taxes, and control would still be imposed upon the private industry! It's ALWAYS been about more control, people! It has always been about getting more and more of us under their thumb. I sound terribly anti-establishment here. I am absolutely not advocating such a point of view. However, I am simply concerned about the size and sphere of the government today! Allow me to put this into perspective:
I am at the moment taking a summer course to complete some needed credits for graduation at my school. The course is essentially the history of the Lutheran reformation, complete with a 755 page volume (currently less than 100 pages away from being done with it, BY THE WAY :)!) of Luther's writings. I recently came across some of the most interesting passages. After many, many, many treatises on strictly spiritual (church only) issues, there came a chapter called "Living and Dying as a Christian" in which Luther goes on to describe how we should view government. In a nutshell....Luther saw that the world is a sinful place in need of some order. Even Christians screw up and make mistakes....he saw it necessary that a government be in place to protect its citizens from those who would do them harm and evil. It is there to keep the peace, more or less. To bring this back to our world....are you aware that that the sole (original) purpose of federal government in this country was simply to protect the states? The states had most of the power for quite a while. The federal government was just there to protect them from any enemies. Therefore, if you didn't like what was going on in your state....you could take it up directly with your officials at your state assembly! The state-level obviously made things a little more personal. If that didn't work...you could always move to a different state, I suppose. Moving to a different state is a lot easier than moving to a different country, as we would have to do today if we couldn't tolerate the government anymore. Anyway, my point is....the central government of that day was minimal! It was there for a few specific purposes, and it worked! Obviously, the expansive size of our country benefits from a federal government that keeps it all together; however, in my mind it is quickly moving from simply "keeping it all together" to centralizing ALL power to one elite city and to very specific people who do what they want despite popular opinion. This is never good. It hasn't been good for past civilizations, and I simply do not see how it can be good for us.
I just want those of you out there who think that we are now winning this battle to be mindful of the fact that the the public option in this bill is only one of MANY ills found within it, and this health care bill in its entirety is only a portion of our fight for our fleeting freedoms, and this is no time to be dancing for victory. Yet. Save the celebration for when we get our country back.
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