Fear

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The mind is a funny thing. With all the talk of insurance reform an old memory worked its way up to the surface. I remember when I was a young child, setting at the doorway as my Mother and Father listened to an insurance salesman. You must understand that for years the common sales technique to sell insurance has been fear. They always paint the grimmest and most frightening scenarios. That is their jobs. Things like: What if your husband dies? Who will take care of you and your 3 young children? But that was his job. He never talked about the odds. Of course like many Americans, my parents would more than likely never understood or just been confused by the numbers. Anyway numbers can be twisted. Remember what Mark Twain said: “There are three types of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I’m not going to say that that insurance man was a villain. After all what he was saying was the truth. In the early 60s my mother and my siblings would have been in a desperate position if my father had met with an accident. He stayed on message and convinced my parents that life insurance was a good bargain. He didn’t lie or even stretch the truth. He simple painted the picture of “what if.” Unlike the current debate there was a consistent message.

Trust?

In the current debate over the health care bill we can see a continued shift in the American public. For years the members of the middle class have been so busy that many have ignored politics. We’ve been busy raising our children, feeding the cat, paying our mortgages, worried about saving money to send our kids to college, and hoping that those who we elected every couple of years were doing the right things.

But suddenly we find ourselves in some very uncomfortable situations. We find that many of the promises we have been made were totally ignored. We find that the only ones who have any real input into Washington are buying access. We hear a bureaucrat say: “You can not let a crisis go to waste.” We find that our leaders call those who that agree with them, good American and anyone who disagrees, un-American. We see our “leaders” not only vote on bills but pass them without bothering to read the contents. Then a leader says it doesn’t matter, since he would not understand what he was reading.

Next year many of these “leaders” will be asking for our votes. We must remember what they think of us. It does not matter if you agree or disagree with the current debate; you must remember that if our leaders are this arrogant, then they have no desire to serve. They may be doing what you think you want now, but can we trust them. We are stronger because of our differences. No one group is totally right or wrong. If we are not willing to listen to those who disagree then our ignorance will be used against us.

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When our leaders will not listen and call us a mob, un-American, and say we are lying when they don’t know if it is true or not, it is time to throw the bums out. How can we trust them? I can see no reason to trust these career politicians who are so isolated from us that they seem to have forgotten what it means to be an American. As they make these huge power grabs we find our freedoms slipping away.

Something has been bothering me for a while now

Something has been bothering me for a while now. I’ve had the same doctor for years. In fact we went to high school together. His kids and mine are friends. Hell he saved my life about ten years ago. I thought I knew and could trust him. But as I listen to the leader of our country, I find out some troubling things. To think that he removed my son’s tonsils not because they were inflamed and he was constantly sick, but because he some how got paid extra for doing it. I really don’t know who paid him extra, since I paid him for the operation. Then I hear that he is contemplating cutting off my leg to collect $30,000 from my insurance. So I guess he’s using reverse psychology on me every time he tells me that I need to watch my weight and cut down on the salt and fat. Who would have thought that my friend and doctor is so evil.

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Well I’m sorry Mr. Obama, I’m not buying it. My friend and doctor is a caring person who went into the medical profession for the right reasons. He really cares about his patients and takes his Hippocratic Oath to heart. For anyone to paint all doctors as uncaring and evil only shows how twisted our President thinks. Why would anyone trust a word that he says? He will say anything to get his way. He seems to be saying; to Hell with the country, he has his legacy to care about.

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The founding fathers were very wise when they created the American system of governance. Considering the chaos and tyranny that governed the world in the 18^th century it is amazing that a system based upon the intricate checks and balances of this country was devised. Our system was originally designed and intended to protect the minority and the majority equally. This system had at least one major flaw, one of them being that they allowed the institution of slavery to continue. The resolution of that error was very costly. By ignoring the social consequences the nation was nearly lost. But it was saved and its fragile legacy lives on till today.

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As the years go by there is another flaw that is becoming more and more evident. The idea of seniority rule could cost us our very freedom. We have an entrenched bureaucracy consisting of career politicians and life long government employees. One of the biggest danger is the seniority of the politician. The American people for many years have punished politician and the party for unpopular actions or policies. But the system stays the same. In 2006 and 2008 the American people punished the Republican Party for not sticking to its principles. In districts throughout the country many representatives were shown the door and replaced with “blue dog” Democrats. This was an effort by many to take back our country and return our system to one that was more (lowercase) conservative.

It seems to be a sound principle to punish those who did not follow through on their promises. Holding our leaders to a higher principle is a good American (not just conservative) value that should not be abandoned. But as we have seen since the 2008 election, the people who took control were not the conservation “blue dogs” that were sent. The power just shifted to the senior members. We’ve put people like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Barney Franks, Ted Kennedy, and John Conyers, Jr. in charge.

Mr. Conyers has openly admitted that he is not qualified for the committee that he chairs. By saying that it would do him no good to read the Health Care Reform Bill, since he would need two lawyers to help him understand it, he in effect said that he does not have the skills need for his position. So how did he get this position? He got it through majority rule and seniority. Don’t get me wrong, I believe we must have a government run by the people. I just would like to see people who are qualified in leadership positions.