Here’s the scene: Speaking from the Rose Garden, our president, flanked by a few poor souls who lack health insurance, decried that Republicans were trying to thwart some Americans’ access to healthcare. The implication is “why would anyone want to deny someone access to healthcare?” Why, that’s inhumane! The president went on to say that thanks to him, these folks now have access to affordable care.
I guess we’re to believe that benefits such as healthcare
flow like honey from government coffers.
“Why, without someone in Washington fighting for us, we’d have no
healthcare!” many might proclaim.
The undeniable and inescapable fact, though, is much less
appealing: the government must first
take from Group A and then give to Group B (here, in the form of health
insurance). Some will be made better off
ONLY at another’s expense. If I robbed
John at gun point and used the stolen cash to visit the dentist, I’m still a
thief. Theft is theft. However, our government can perpetrate the
same crime except now it’s legal theft. What was once considered outright stealing
has been deemed humanitarian, compassionate, civilized, etc.
A more honest approach would have been for the president to man-up,
face the cameras and accept partial responsibility for the lousy economy and
lack of jobs – jobs that could have provided these folks with affordable health
insurance.
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