We have some serious policy disagreements in this country, and Washington is only obfuscating the issues. Several things I read this week make the same sad point.
An ER doctor sent the President a letter expressing how he’s fed up with treating patients with expensive clothes and jewelry, tattoos, fancy phones, who smoke, drink… and receive Medicaid. Another doctor added that he’s weary of giving up his Wednesdays to treat these patients for free. The rising realization is that we don’t have a health crisis, we have a cultural problem where people do what they want and expect to be taken care of for free. Personal responsibility for one’s health is fast becoming the state’s problem.
On the manmade climate change front, I’ve listened carefully to explanations of how greenhouse gases warm the planet to cause this year’s record cold and snowfalls. I don’t get it.
In addressing the economy, health care and environment, the Democrats in Washington continue to press legislation that - when you strip away the spin - do not fix the problem as much as they significantly increase taxes, debt and regulations. There’s way too much class warfare and far too little understanding of how free market capitalism built the resources that this nation now takes for granted.
I can’t watch President Obama without thinking of the old marching band analogy – the drum major grabbing all the attention as he struts around the field, while the guy on the ladder on the sideline quietly does the real work of leading.
The third of Americans on the left and third on the right may never agree on the role of government. But can we agree that when your car goes into a skid on a slippery road, the first thing you do is take your foot off the accelerator?
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