LETTER TO HARRY AND 01
Joe Bissot
-> I've read about your concerns over health care reform. You are
-> worried that "employer mandates" might slow job growth and the
-> economy. You are worried that universal coverage might increase
-> taxes, or your own health care costs. And you are afraid that you
-> might lose the opportunity to always choose your own physician, while
-> your health care plan pays the cost. Louise my friend, Harry my old
-> buddy, I'm ashamed of you! Aren't we the same idealists who marched
-> against a destructive war?
Yes you are the same people who punished those victimized by a system of
taught patriotism. Who spitted on people who honestly thought they were
serving there country and you. Who screamed "baby killer at men
disfigured by war who returned to an ungrateful society. Who
demonstrated cowardice by protesting only as anonymous nobody's rather
than facing societies wrath head on in precedence setting court cases.
-> didn't we promise not to "sell out" like
-> our own parents did?
And you have not sold yourselves out, but you have forfeited your
children. Your children are called Generation X because they feel
abandoned and forgotten by people who forgot about personal
responsibility and only remembered personal freedom.
-> I know that a lot has happened to make all of
-> us cynical about politicians, but consider a few facts about the
-> situation faced by today's younger generation. Those "jobs" you are
-> so intent on protecting, the jobs created during the Reagan-Bush
-> years, are part-time service orientated jobs at companies like
-> McDonalds and Pizza Hut. These are jobs with no health care benefits
-> and few advancement opportunities. We have condemned this generation
-> to the McJob.
Reagan, and Bush did not cause Mc Jobs a changing and expanding world
left a group of self involved idealists sitting on their butts wondering
what happened. The single greatest generation of super thoughtful all
wonderful people suddenly had to compete with the world, and they lost.
If you really want to find those old assembly jobs ask the American
steel companies, ask the American auto industry. The jobs that killed
America were union jobs. How did the great socialist empire (the
unions) protect it's workers when it's world became slow and stupid? It
didn't. Years of foolish decisions and neglect ate American jobs. How
many fewer jobs would there have been without the boom of the Reagan
years.
-> was only a few years ago that the Bush administration gave us a
-> budget that spent 1.4 trillion dollars, while raising only one
-> trillion in taxes. And that was only one year!
No the Bush administration gave us the highest tax increase up to that
time (and it killed the Bush administration) and higher taxes in no way
lowered the national debt. The Congress gave us 1.4 trillion dollars in
spending. With our current government higher taxes mean higher spending.
Never will high taxes be coupled with spending freezes or reductions.
Even when the government speaks of spending freezes they are lying to
the American public. Since when did a spending freeze become only raises
spending by the same percent we did last time?
-> Our hatred of new
-> taxes has become a hatred of paying the bills for services we demand.
I sure as hell don't demand them... I demand instead that some of these
so called services get cut.
-> We have condemned "Generation X" to a bleak future where they pay
-> off the charges on the credit card that we have rung up. Don't we
-> owe them something, like jobs that provide health care.
You know what you us Generation Xers? You owe us the decency of
admitting your grand schemes are failures and getting the hell out of our
business. I don't want you 17% GNP health care plan added on to the
damage you've already done.
-> I appreciate
-> your love of freedom and choice. And I understand how "hard-won" your
-> economic freedom's have been. But didn't we all learn that with
-> freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility to make a better life
-> for all Americans?
Some times the best way to help somebody is to leave them alone. Great
Society plans like universal healthcare shield everybody with a humanity
stifling level of mediocrity. 80% of America does not require a
completely new health care system. Help the 20% that do, don't attack the
.
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