Not better or worse, just different

Craig — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:55:38 +0000

I know some of you won’t like this but I was thinking recently if there weren’t some advantages of more socialist countries that we tend to ignore here. From what I understand, people in Britain and France do not nearly have the standard of living we do–they have less toys and money and big cars and so forth. But at the same time, they don’t have to worry as much. They get more time off, its harder to get fired (too hard in France in my opinion) they don’t have to worry about getting sick as much because of socialized health care. In France at least, the health care is supposedly much better than here, but its bankrupting their government. Of course, we are too because of the war, bailouts and general runaway spending and we don’t even have socialized medicine. But in any case, their worries and stresses are less, they have greater individual financial security at the cost of a lower economic success.

I’m not saying its better–just different. I’m not claiming we should or could do that here in America. We have more stress and have to work harder here, but we have far more opportunity and wealth. Do you think its possible that what conservatives and liberals are fighting over is really just two different approaches to life and government, both with pros and cons? Maybe one is not entirely “better” than the other, but both involve trade-offs.

I’m not picking a fight with anyone, just more thinking out loud. Maybe my outspoken conservative friends Brady or Brett will comment. Also to be fair, liberals should keep this in mind that maybe what conservatives want is not to have the country run by greedy corporations but a different set of advantages that involves more hard work, less security but greater rewards.

Just some thoughts…

Was Congressman Joe Wilson wrong to yell “You Lie!” during Obama’s speech?

Mike — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:46:32 +0000

During Obama’s speech today on healthcare, Congressman Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” drawing strong criticism from both sides of the isle. Joe was referring to Obama’s statement that illegal immigrants would not be covered under the new public healthcare option that Obama is proposing.

The statement is as follows:

“There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”

This is a difficult situation for me, but I am firm in my opinion.

The problem stems from the simple fact that Republicans tried to add a firm clause to the bill that specifically banned illegal immigrants from benefiting from the public healthcare option and the resulting landslide democrat vote that canned the amendment to the bill. I completely understand Mr. Wilson’s desire to make a point that Obama was lying and the rage he must have felt inside as Obama sat there on national TV and lied with a straight face. This bill as is stands to be signed will most definitely cover illegal aliens!

However, this is the President of the United States. The office needs to be respected, even if the man holding it is not. There is also the issue of respect for others. Lastly, what are we teaching our children in an elected official to a congressional seat can not control himself in such a situation. We expect our kids to behave in school, or church, or in a public situation. We can’t hold them to the same standards if we can’t hold ourselves to those same standards as adult. Especially if we are a duly elected public representative.

So Joe Wilson… SHAME ON YOU!

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Not better or worse, just different

Was Congressman Joe Wilson wrong to yell “You Lie!” during Obama’s speech?