The last couple of days I've had just enough time to snatch and grab a few headlines from the local paper and read the stories that caught my eye....and actually the two that grabbed my eye first were on the op-ed page as letters to the editor....
The first was Friday, I believe....A lady wrote in and blasted all us good Christian folk for not wanting Obama's health care plan.....even invoked the name of Jesus and informed us that He would care for teh sick and that as Christians we should follow His example and demand passage of the health care bill so that all may be taken care of....
Now, I have nothing against those who are truly down on their luck and have no other way of getting health care receiving it thru the govt....those I will gladly part with the money from my paycheck to help.....but maybe I am missing something, since I cannot and will not claim to have read the whole Bible word for word.....but did Jesus have truck with politicians? I think not. Did he say free health care for all regardless of whether you truly need help or are just plain lazy? You know maybe He did, but I don't see it.......please feel free to point me to the specific chapter and verse and I may reconsider my stance....
As for those who are whining about employer provided health care being too expensive and they can't afford to have their premiums taken from their paycheck so they rely on the system to get them through......grow up and man/woman up....and face the real world... the real world does not hand you what you want on a silver platter....no I do not like the fact that a huge chunk of my pay goes to cover my premiums...but the alternative is not carrying health insurance on myself, my husband, or my kids....and that's just plain stupid, folks.....if your employer offers it, then take it......bite the bullet, so to speak, and cut back on the credit card use and the trips to Cancun or wherever you go that takes all your cash and use it for what you need to before what you want to....I do not want to pay for you if you have the chance to take care of yourself and can...
Then yesterday, a gentleman wrote in and complained about the phone call he received as the parent of a high school student, about a driver's ed course being offered, only $285 for 6 hrs of instruction so your kid can say he took driver's ed and get the insurance discount....Heck my kid got the same call..he attends the high school at the other end of the county from the writer's, and he was smart enough to say "what a scam!" See, one of the selling points of consolidating the high schools in teh county from 4 to 2 in the early 90's was that there would be so much more opportunity for kids to get and take the classes they need and want......well it has not panned out that way, like any thinking person should have realized...and driver's ed is one area where the opprtunity exists and the schools have once again screwed up....when I was in HS, there was no problem getting into driver's ed---even the 10th graders could get in as long as they were old enough....and my HS was 400 kids, plus or minus a few, in 4 grades....my son's senior class will be in the neighborhood of 500 kids.......
So we are going to be teaching him ourselves, and at this point he will probably be 18 before he gets his license....good then he can pay for his own insurance.....
No comments:
Post a Comment