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I keep hearing about the different attacks on our rights being perpetuated by the Obama Administration. And the rights he seems set on stripping from us are the very ones that our Founding Fathers believed to be of utmost importance, evidenced by their placement as the First and Second Amendments.
Did not the First Amendment give us the right to speak our minds and the right to gather together to share ideas? Does not the First Amendment protect your right to worship and the time and place of your choosing, or not if you prefer? Doesn’t the First Amendment even guarantee the right of a free press as well? I should think the media would cherish this Amendment first and foremost—at least if they like to speak other than that which is approved by the government. What do they really think the Fairness Doctrine is about? The government wanting to restrict speech that they disagree with is what the Obama Administration considers to be fair. But to who is it fair? Why should anyone consider a one sided argument fair? My dad always told me not to make a decision with only one side of the story—so why would they expect the entire American populace to do exactly that? Should my dad be in Washington as an advisor since none of their parents must have taught them this fundamental principle? In the words of President Harry Truman, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
And then there’s the Second Amendment! The right to keep and bear arms which springs from a very basic right to protect ourselves and our families. Why would Obama’s administration want to attack our right to protect our families? Thomas Jefferson said, “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” Is that possibly what Obama and his cronies fear? That the Americans they plan to break down as they destroy the economy for us and our children and take our rights one by one might rise up in protest? If not, then what do they fear?
Don’t let them tell you they fear the high rate of crime here, or in Mexico, because with that answer they are either insulting our intelligence by thinking we would believe that off-the-mark response, or they truly are stupid enough to believe it themselves. And if the latter is the correct one then we are in more trouble than any of us are prepared for!
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I have looked at the choices of the Health Care plans suggested by Senator McCain and Senator Obama. At the end of looking into them I am struck by one significant difference which I find alarming and unacceptable—“government sponsored” being part of Obama’s plan.
Who really thinks that anything run by the government is better for the people? I don’t and no one else should either. In the words of President Reagan, “Man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” He also said, “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
You see, Obama says that his health care plan is not mandatory but if you had been listening to him during the debates you would know that is temporary. He wants it to eventually cover everyone and for that to work he would have to make it mandatory. He also wants employers to offer insurance to their employees. If he makes that mandatory how many people do you think employers will have to terminate in order to cover the additional cost of insurance? And what if you are one of them?
Granted McCain’s plan may not be perfect but is there is no perfect way to solve a problem that is so far out of control, but more government intervention and higher taxes certainly won’t do any good for anyone, especially when it results in more people out of work and on government entitlement programs.