Topic: Health Care
Get Your Astroturf In Gear! Conservatives don't organize professionally because we are too independent. The collective, on the other hand...by Rimfrel
(libertarian)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Today I saw reports that the Democrats are going to organize counter-demonstrations to the town hall "Astroturf" protests they have been attributing to Republicans. The report was on Fox News Channel, and included a reference to promoting disruption at the meetings. And yet Pelosi calls the conservatives the Astroturf hired guns.
People who think the Republicans or anyone else is organizing protests against the House Health Care Reform bill (HR 3200) obviously don't personally know any Republicans or conservative protesters. Our zeal for freedom and independence work against us. We have to feel like something pretty important to us is being threatened before we get up and go march. Oh, sure, we might donate to and vote for conservative causes, but that's quick and a light burden. And it's optional -- no one knows, usually, if we donated or not, or how we voted.
It's more often the Left that's up on their feet, carrying signs and chanting (generally uninspired) slogans about helping others. We are shaking our heads as we walk by, wondering why those others don't help themselves, as we did. Hard work may not equal success, but it seems to increase the odds. Demonstrations take time and energy that we could be putting into our jobs, our businesses, or even our families. We do have families. We spend plenty of time away from them for work, we don't need to give up more just because somebody isn't enjoying the same benefits in life that we do.
The Left also seems to blithely assume that there is enough to go around. They seem to think, "Sure, everybody may have to give up something so that there is enough to share with those who have nothing, but there is enough. In the end, everyone will have enough to survive!" Maybe so, at least, until they have kids and there isn't enough any more. The plans of the Left don't scale well with population increases. They also seem to think that everyone is equally motivated to work, just that some are better at certain types of work. Curious that they don't demonstrate in front of the homes of athletes or rock stars, who could afford to give up money. They seem to think charity is a dirty word. "Basic costs of living is a human right!" No, it really isn't.
Many of the advances in technology have been inspired by someone wanting to live better in a technological way. Instead of caves, stacking rocks to create a dwelling, shaping the rocks so they fit together better, developing stout doors that wild animals couldn't get through, devising heating and cooling sytems, improving crop yields so you have enough extra to sell and then get something you cannot make or have no time to make (e.g. cloth), improving weaving methods until you have industrial looms....it goes on.
Funny how people who want subsistence level living for everyone never suggest everybody going back to primitive conditions. Primitive conditions are sustainable because there is little that nature can destroy, and lack of technology tends to mean lack of medical care as well, so nature keeps the population in check, too. Not too many leftists in primitive societies, I'll bet. Lots of people willing to try to look after the tribe, but not too many people telling the guy who has food that he has to share it. Maybe because he also has a spear. And primitive conditions also mean each person has a smaller carbon footprint! Surely, that ought to be worth losing children to diseases that can be vaccinated against....
I misrepresent, however. The Left actually wants something above subsistence level living for everyone. The money just isn't there to support it. I wonder why the Left is slow to share its own resources and quick to tell others to share theirs. The Rathke brothers organize poor blacks and yet have millions. George Soros is a billionaire who supports things like paid volunteers to demonstrate in favor of health care. If they care so much, why are they rich? Mother Theresa had street cred. The Left's leading lights, not so much.
So when the government or anyone else says they want to help you, be suspicious. Keep your hand on your wallet and be ready to fight for your freedom. Don't sell your birthright as a human being, who can make something of themselves, for a mess of pottage that lets you do nothing but complain like a two-year-old. Fight for the right to take care of yourself.
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