Update: Healthcare

I'm in the middle of converting this blog and setting it up to look cool. The graphics are rough and I bet my readership remains in the zero digits. All amateurish postings aside, I will comment and try to stay objective on the latest news and steer away from political rhetoric. My interest lays with the issue and how public policy works or doesn't work. Everybody these days are talking about health care. I would like to add a disclaimer. My parents have never voted for a democratic party presidential candidate. I grew up listing to Rush Limbaugh and all forms of conservative talk radio. They came of age politically during the Reagan administration and I have adopted many of their right leaning convictions. However, I have made a commitment to throw out my preconceived notions and to objectively analyze proposals and ideas. People who tend to be liberal or lean in that direction may have had life experiences that make them more sympathetic towards those of lower income. Conservatives tend to like the constitution and believe that sacred document has served us well as a country because of success or cultural upbringing.

Purpose of the blog

Governments are instituted among men to secure rights. For over two hundred and thirty years, the United States has enjoyed the blessings and grace of Almighty God, who was and is and is to come. God has given men the gift of freewill and positioned our station below the angels who have not flesh and above animals that have not souls. Our government has imperfectly but satisfactorily worked with us to enforce our rights and freewill. Our broken satisfaction lies in the fact that WE are the government. We weak and sinful people, being reconciled to God through Jesus, have the right to wreck and destroy along with the ability to repent and enter the cover of our loving Father’s grace. Our Creator dispenses the freedom and rights we know in our hearts. The constitution does not grant us rights but merely affirms that they are in place, no matter what kind of depravity that calls itself government abuses and ignores its people. Our founding fathers understood the human condition and the tendency toward debauchery. Lustful passions and the hunger for power needed to be checked and the structure of our national administration contains provisions to block those with harmful intentions. I believe there is a battle that rages over the soul of our beloved America. This battle threatens to drag our society down to the depths of tyranny and totalitarianism. We must be vigilant against those who threaten to dismantle our institutions and not lulled to sleep by self serving demagogues. Every proposal, every plan presented must carefully scrutinized so that we don’t journey down the road that so many societies have ventured. I challenge my fellow Americans to engage in informed debate where the focus doesn’t lay on personalities but on ideas and issues.