On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:35:23 -0700, "azotic"
wrote:

Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and
President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about. Allow
us to referee. While claims about euthanasia and "death panels" are over the
top, senior fears have exposed a fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is
proposing: Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized,
rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find
their care the most restricted.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...152168372.html

Best Regards

Tom.

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It is well to remember that while the current health care
"debate," at least on a conscious level, is about "health care,"
in reality, it is only a fig leaf for far more contentious
problems such as the ever expanding role of government in society
and the economy, the rise of the sovereign corporations largely
exempt from governmental oversight/control/taxation, and the
serious strains being placed on the society/culture by
uncontrolled immigration and the accelerating marginalization of
ever larger segments of the population.

This angst is greatly compounded and amplified by the collapse of
several deeply held subliminal myths, such as "individual
responsibility," "self-reliance," and "the free market" which
have served as a soporific and opiate for large numbers of the
American population.

I do not have any solutions for these problems (only for a few of
the symptoms), but it should be clear that simply being "agin any
change," is comparable to attempting to "treat" your child with
prayer, when they are suffering from cancer or diabetes.

In too many ways, the U.S. Government is simply a larger version
of GM, complete with entrenched executives still wandering around
in the 60s, total denial of societal/economic changes, and a
collective adamant refusal to examine facts and take action.
Until and unless drastic foundational change is made, the
problems will only get worse, not better.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).