How Most Tea Partiers, Libertarians, Members Of The GOP And Even Some Democrats Would Destroy America
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Plaque on the Statue of Liberty
These words on the plaque at the Statue of Liberty used to mean something. They were the principles behind what our country used to represent, but have been tossed aside by many Americans in favor of an enormous lie. Many members of the Tea Party, the Republican party and *most Libertarians talk about “small government,” and while this might seem like a great idea on the surface, there are problems that have not been properly addressed and too many Americans have fallen for it.
The biggest culprit of the abrogation of the ethics and morality of our Nation is the Tea Party, but members of the other groups also bear a significant responsibility in the rise of the intolerance of our tired, poor huddled masses. Their arrogance and ignorance do not allow them to understand that healthcare is not a privilege, but a right for every living being on the planet. Why the United States does not yet have a national healthcare service that is paid for solely by the government is beyond me.
These Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Libertarians trot out several reasons why they believe a single-payer health care service cannot be allowed to exist here in these United States. These reasons range from paranoia derived by their ignorance of what differentiates socialism from Socialism to their irrational belief that the wholesale and ongoing needs of the poor, sick, elderly and disabled can be met by private individuals or the free market.
They cry out for the elimination of all forms of government funded welfare programs by claiming that taxation is essentially the same as being forced at gunpoint to hand their wealth over to those who cannot generate their own income. They do not seem to understand the concept of shared responsibility, nor do they understand that many children will go hungry if school lunch subsidization gets canceled, that people will continue to be bankrupted by their inability to pay their medical bills and many will continue to find themselves homeless after becoming too sick to earn an income.
I worked for many years as a repossession agent and can state here with great certainty that a majority of the vehicles I repossessed were due to the inability to make a car payment because of a job that was lost as a result of missing too much time for an illness or the illness of a child. And these were not Cadillacs, Porsches and Mercedes that I was putting on my rollback, but older models that were bought at local used car lots at what can be considered reasonable terms
But I digress...
I am not an economist, nor am I a political scientist. I don’t have all the answers, nor do I claim to. I do know that in October of 1941, the British Minister of Health, Ernest Brown, announced that the Government proposed to ensure that there was a comprehensive hospital service available to everyone in need of it, and that local authorities would be responsible for providing it. This was the birth of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It was not popular at first, but if you ask almost anyone in the UK about their NHS, they will tell you that they wouldn’t give it up for all the tea in China. The claims by American Conservatives that the British NHS is some horrible program that is bankrupting the UK and that most people don’t get the care they need is total and complete propaganda.
I know enough people in the UK that love their NHS.
Many Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Libertarians in the United States are lobbying with extreme intensity to pass reforms that would be detrimental to all but those at the upper echelon of society. The minority of those with premium health care plans that are paid for out of pocket or by their employers (including Congress) will undoubtedly benefit. The rest of us will be kicked to the curb, like trash, left to wither and die without so much as a second thought. Why, you ask? Money.
Every time I make a comment about universal, single-payer healthcare for the USA, the very first responses I hear from many Conservatives, members of the Tea Party Movement and most Libertarians are always about money. I find this morally reprehensible. Until we make a decision to put the health of human beings over the almighty dollar we will never conquer this problem.
There are many elderly, poor and/or disabled Americans who are watching, waiting and hoping that this is just a passing fad, that these people will fade away into obscurity along with all the other nutters who have come and gone. They are waiting for a concise answer as to what will become of them, because it doesn't look favorable. Especially when you have politicians sucn as South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who said,“Don’t feed the poor, it makes them breed.”
When you consider the number of people living below the poverty level and without health care, it doesn't take a mathematician to understand that the majority of us are the very individuals that are described on that plaque on Lady Liberty. We are the tired. We are the poor. We are the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. But, according to these the Conservatives, the Tea Party and most Libertarians, we are a useless drain on society, stray cats that should not be fed, lest we breed.
Thus, I watch with horror everytime one of these morons open their mouths, touting their poisonous rhetoric. I've lost count over how many times I have facepalmed due to the utter failure of common human decency. They fail to understand that our government is the sum of all of our citizens. By failing to provide health care and the the funding of Social Security and Disability benefits, our government fails.
Many Conservatives, members of The Tea Party and most Libertarians want to sacrifice a vast number of Americans on the free market altar by eliminating the government funding of all social welfare programs, Social Security and unemployment compensation. This is their platform, and it causes me great concern for what my children and grandchildren will have to endure if people like this end up in total control of our government.
We are slowly handing over our nation to tyrants who would regress us back to the time of the Robber Barons and those who support this are giving away their rights, but are either too self-absorbed or too stupid to realize what they've done to themselves.
Regarding Libertarians...
I have consistently used the phrase "most Libertarians." I do this because although the Tea Party Movement and the Conservative movement have their mission statements engraved by the hand of god on stone tablets, there are many different people who call themselves Libertarians who have conflicting points of view on some very key issues. In a future edition, I will publish an interview that I have scheduled with an Atheist Libertarian with whom I share agreement with on some points.
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