So, I wrote yesterday about these Town Hall demonstrators and asked, "what are they afraid of?" Then today, I got a forwarded email with a letter to the editor written by a High School classmate of mine in response to some other letter in his local paper. I post it as Exhibit A. I’ve highlighted certain phrases that may bear on "what are they afraid of?"
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It is disappointing to read letters like [REDACTED]. Thoughts like these explain all too well how we have sunk so low in our ability to think and take care of ourselves, and why the majority voted in the socialist thugs and gangsters presently in charge of this once proud and self-sufficient nation.
Just to touch on a few tidbits: the AMA, even if it did endorse this Orwellian healthcare plan, only represents ca. 17% of physicians. AARP is hand in glove with the hard Left and always has been. They don’t represent all, or even most, oldsters. This evil bill, HB3200, would spell the end of so many freedoms that it took more than a 1000 pages to list them all. And just who wrote it? Does anyone know or care? And why all the hurry? We are talking about one-sixth of the economy! That, on top of what this gang of banksters and misanthropes have already spent and obligated the American people and their descendants in perpetuity for, is beyond preposterous. We could never recover; we may not anyway, without the bill. Further, how in God’s name can there be a discussion of healthcare totally absent tort-reform debate? Think pretty-haired Johnny Edwards and his crazy fortune amassed from the healthcare industry and its physicians without whom life is infinitely less tenable than it would be without lawyers like himself. There seem to be lots of law firm billboards, but I seldom see those advertising physicians. The healthcare industry does indeed need reform. President Obama’s own personal physician recently resigned that post because of this bill. He, the doctor, said that practicing medicine today is like having a lawyer on one side, and an insurance rep on the other. Neither is helpful at that close range. This bill is sinister because of the haste in which it was constructed, the haste in which its passage is being urged, and because of the darkness of its myriad obfuscations. It would ipso facto institutionalize the immediate and irrevocable amnesty of ca. 20 million people who are here illegally. That’s an end-run around the wishes of the People. The whole thing reeks of dishonesty and deception. Bearing in mind the federal government’s recent bungling of the Cash for Clunker program, which is "only" ca. $3 billion, why would anyone want to entrust his/her healthcare to this leviathan Army of The Inept? The very spectre of such a thing is horrifying. I know several people who voted for this crowd and who now are apologetic for it. Bush and the neocons were a disaster, I know, but this bunch could well spell America’s final doom. Many people who think they’re for this version of national healthcare would not be if they were aware of the scores of intrusive, poisonous, tentacles this tome without a pedigree contains. This bill needs either a vast and complete overhaul, or better yet, a quick and final demise. A matter of this enormous importance needs long and comprehensive discussion and analysis bereft of politics and dogma. It needs the input of experts in the healthcare industry, as well as consumers/citizens; not Marxists in drag.
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[It was forwarded as an example of the superior writing taught at my school in the 1960’s]…
UPDATE: One of my classmates complained about this letter being forwarded, and the author responded to the complaint [to his credit]:
| I wish to apologize for my letter to the editor of the [REDACTED] having gotten through to all of you. Please know that I would never foist any political opinion onto a more or less captive audience. I have been writing letters to this newspaper with frequency over the past 25 years or so. As they are written, I sometimes cc. them to people on my address list whose thoughts and opinions I imagine to be similar to my own. I also wish, though, to thank very much both [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] for their sincere and kind thoughts regarding my missive. Perhaps their aims were different, or maybe similar. I don’t know. In any case, I’m quite sure we all know they were in no way negative. If I have offended anyone’s sensibilities, I beg your forgiveness. |
Sounds like they taught writing really well, but not reading. Has this guy read the facts? Doesn’t sound like it.
He was in the band and played a mean trumpet. A scholar? Not so much…