GG,
I'm glad your hospital stay worked out well for you. And I don't doubt that a socialist government can build good hospitals and staff them with qualified doctors. But I don't care one bit if the Canadian system works "better" than ours here (which I doubt), I just don't want it. And I believe that our health care system would work better if we could get the national government completely out of its unconstitutional role with regards to medicine.
For you or me as individuals our health is terribly important, but on just what moral basis do you see it just for us to load the burden of our personal problems off on everyone else? And if the lifetime responsibility for our healthcare can be loaded off on the public, well, why not let the public bear the burden of every other aspect of our lives? Let your countrymen provide you with a house and food to eat, a job, heck, why not a car? And why not build the car in a government factory?
Creeeping socialism is the biggest danger the world faces. Eventually socialism will lead to one-world government and then to a global Orwellian dictatorship. Europe and Canada are already fairly far gone in this direction, having lost so much personal freedom to the growing socialist state. Hopefully, TJ's TEOTWAWKI will save us from this disaster. I don't really care about Canada, but for here I'm hoping for a serious civil war to settle our problems when the bottom falls out.
Socialism destroys the individual in many ways, it kills the desire to succeed and short circuits our natural reaching for betterment in life. Proof of this? Do you honestly believe that the weaklings of our generation are even half the men of say my grandfathers time?
Socialism destroys the whole nation, too. That is why that socialists in one nation are so agressive in promoting their political system in the neighboring nations. Marx said that socialism will reign everywhere or that it will eventually be destroyed everywhere.
On hospitals, last year I spent the night in a provincial hospital in the Philippines, located right smack in the middle of a giant barrio. Not me, but a family member and everything was fine. Years ago one of my kids was in the hospital there for two days, and everything went fine. I even know somebody who had a hip replaced there, with great results. And there is no stench of socialism there, not a bit.
Slagle |
