Healthcare, Hyper-Partisanship & What Larry Winget Believes About Nearly Everything
August 1, 2009 | 68 Comments
Healthcare, Hyper-Partisanship & What Larry Winget Believes About Nearly Everything
Healthcare.
I believe that basic healthcare is the right of every citizen. I think we have a moral obligation to help people who are sick regardless of what made them that way or whether they have any money or not. If we have the medical ability and expertise to do it, we should do it. It is the right thing to do. That said, I don’t want my tax dollars to pay for people who knowingly ruined their health by eating themselves into diabetes or other obesity related conditions. I also don’t want to support folks who smoked their 3 packs a day and got emphysema or lung cancer or other smoking related condition. They knew what there were doing was stupid and we shouldn’t have to support them. But you can’t exclude them either. I am a mean SOB in many ways but I can’t let people who are sick just die because they were stupid. I just can’t. If you can look sick people in the eye and tell them “no healthcare for you!” I don’t understand you. I can let stupid people who bought more house than they could afford be foreclosed on but I can’t let sick people die. Especially over politics or money. It’s not right.
I don’t believe we can afford to tax ourselves any more in order to pay for the proposed healthcare plan. That will only put a burden on small businesses that will contribute even more to our economic problems. We should be doing whatever it takes to help small businesses, not hinder them. Taxing people and businesses more is not the way to fix this problem. I don’t want more taxes period right now. You can’t tax or spend your way out of an economic mess.
Fan or Fanatic? Which are you?
July 12, 2009 | 53 Comments
Fan or fanatic? Do you know the difference? I am continually astonished that many people don’t. It seems that for many, they are unable to draw a line between being a fan and being a fanatic.
A fan is someone who likes football. They watch it, follow it, go to some games, and talk about it with their friends. A fanatic is a person who rounds up six of his buddies, paints their big ol’ beer bellies with the letters C-O-W-B-O-Y-S (or any other team) and then takes their shirts off at the game even when the temperature is freezing. They somehow think that their fat, hairy, letter-painted bellies are going to cause their team to win. No one really likes these guys and we all think they are pitiful jokes, however, they are the ones who get their painted bellies on TV. Just like many of the fanatics on some of the evening cable news programs: I know Glenn Beck and Keith Olberman have painted bellies under their suits!
Pro-life/pro-choice. A fan of pro-life votes their conscience on that issue or go to a church that supports their belief or may send money to support politicians who believe the way they do. A fanatic kills an abortion doctor. See how the difference betweens a fan and a fanatic can turn ugly?
It’s Easier To Be Stupid
June 27, 2009 | 38 Comments
That’s right. It’s easier to be stupid than it is be smart.
It is easier to listen to the political pundits and television news anchors and trust their words completely than it is to study, read, and search to discover the truth about a political issue or to actually read one of the bills or proposals you are so vehemently for or against.
It is easier to believe Rush or O’Reilly or Hannity or Olberman or Rachel or Beck or even Larry Winget than it is to actually do a little fact checking of your very own. It’s work to find the truth out about any issue, so it’s easier to just accept what you hear as fact.
It is easier to listen to the preachers and believe every word they say from their pulpit than it is to read the book yourself, or maybe lots of books and search for your own insight and develop your beliefs based on your own experiences.
It’s easier to just toe the party line because you are registered Democrat or Republican than it is to ask whether the party line makes sense or not.
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