Dear Editor,
"Obama Care" seems to be a hot button issue with lots and lots of provocative slogans.
I may be wrong, but the following appears to be true regarding the slow down.
It is not a shut down because 83% of the federal government is still functioning.
Failure
to raise the debt limit is also not a shutdown, as it requires the
federal government to spend no more than it's income. What a novel idea.
The ethics of this was succinctly expressed by Congressman Obama as
follows: '
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can
not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing
financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's
reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us
domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops
here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today
onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt
problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
The
Affordable Health Care law seems to have many problems and it is no
longer popular with the electorate. It also is based on corruption of
the process whereby factions supportive to the administration such as
unions and some corporations are exempt.
Does the congress have a responsibility to try to repeal or defund a dysfunctional government program?
Did congress pass legislation to fund the government except for the problem program?
Is it the Senate and the President that are blocking funding passage?
Does the US Constitution (Tenth Amendment) allow the federal government to be in any kind of "insurance" business?
It seems, in a free society, people
own their own bodies which are not the property of any government,
group or person. If this is true, it would follow the the people must be
free to choose what, if any, service they want including heath care.
This is just the opposite of the principle of socialism as express by
Carl Marx, "From each according to their ability, to each according to
their need".
The
American people have been very good at voluntarily helping each other.
There are billions and billions of dollars expended for all sorts of
charities including help for the less fortunate.
Perhaps now is the time for reason and good will. Yes?
Al Segalla
