Good day my friends and patriots in my musings I have been searching for ideas and concepts that portray the damage that can come with extremist opinions in today’s world. One must look no further than the political war that is occurring in the nation’s capitol over health care. I believe that both sides on this issue are incorrect of the situation with the right being too passive and the left being to aggressive in their efforts to bring about this change.
I would first like to point out that health care reform is in fact necessary for the future of this nation. The state that we are in is most assuredly a deadly one. However, I do not necessarily believe that a “redistribution” of wealth is the way to go about it, considering that we are trillions in debt and that this would cause trillions more. No the problem runs a lot deeper than that. The problem is at its very core a problem with the system. The system is broken and trying to “repair” this system by throwing money at it is like trying to repair a wall by throwing bricks at the hole maybe you’ll get something to work but by and large the problem will only increase. The solution is to find the root of the problem and fix it from there. From my perspective it seems that the problems are as follows wonton torts cases that create a severe financial stress on hospitals and doctor’s offices due to payment on the court fees (which the loser of the case usually has to pay), insanely high malpractice insurance, lawyer fees, and the actual costs of seminars and other training methods to further prevent such actions just to name a few. Another problem is that there are several company, CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry who are down right greedy and want to make absolutely outrageous amounts of money in order to support their lavish lifestyles. Yet another source is the great amount of red tape surrounding insurance companies and the way that they handle their works imposed upon by the government itself. These problems and many others combined cause a sever problem in driving up the costs. The only solution is to untie the hands of doctors and hospitals and let them work as they see fit instead of having their lives be dictated because of fear of malpractice suites and being forced to follow the “lad” laid down by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. In other words we have to simply make the process simple and easy again. The only way that the government can help out is by first having their judges simply review the cases before they get to court and anything that is absolutely ridiculous in its claim or at all lacking in legal merit should simply be tossed out. A cheap and effective way of doing this is by using the myriad of willing minds found within the realms of law schools around the country to work as interns either low paid or unpaid. This will not only assist the courts but it will also give these young aspiring lawyers good on the job experience that they could not get while studying the subject from the class room. The other way I would propose is for the legislative branch to review and revise its laws dealing with the insurance companies that handle the medical claims. That is the solution. However, neither side is looking at the problem in this light. Instead the right believes to let the course continue on until we crash and burn and the left is willing to simply make the hold in the wall bigger by throwing their bricks of gold. Both ends will bring ruin to an already dying system.
Yet sadly my friends there are a more root issue still that is the issue of greed. Greed ultimately is the problem with the system for it was the greed that we all had that brought such a problem upon our heads. If we weren’t looking for the easy money we would not have brought upon ourselves the court cases, or the high prices for prescription drugs, or the extreme prices charged by insurance companies and government. The government is not the solution to this problem not it is the people.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The beginning
Friends and patriots scattered across the world. I am starting this blog in the attempt to awaken the minds of all people everywhere to return to that which is just. I am attempting to bring about a change in the hearts of some even many who even at this time are caught within the hellish grasp of extremist thinking and extremist actions. This is not a call to decry jihadists alone but to all people everywhere who are narrow in their thinking and hateful in their actions. This is a call to all people of all nations, tongues, sects, parties, denominations, ideologies, and philosophies to cease the bickering and hate spewed from the mouths of extremist thinking just as bile spews from the mouth of a sick man.
My fellow members of the human family and, more specifically, my fellow Americans where are we? We are in a state of fear distrusting one another hating and backbiting we are corrupting ourselves from the inside. In my favorite fantasy series The Wheel of Time there is an ancient and ruined city called Shadar Logoth. This place and all its inhabitants were utterly destroyed. They were not however destroyed by an outside force but from within. They distrusted each other hated each other. This was the ultimate demise not only of that city but of the whole of the nation. We my fellow Americans and my friends of the human family are in a very similar albeit less fantastic situation. We are divided as Americans on party lines. We are divided against each other based upon lines of religious affiliation or lack thereof. We are divided along lines of high schools, sports affiliations, philosophies, ideologies, and we are even so petty as to create our own caste system in our mind that the group that we associate with is the elite group and all that comes from the mouth of this group is the way that the problem must be solved. That is until we disagree with a member of our caste and then it ultimately comes down to the fact that we are the soul authority on everything and that we are incapable of being wrong. This is death. Yes this way of thinking is death to a nation and to individuals. This is the great destroyer of people this sense of being absolutely correct in all things and distrusting any opposition and attempting to label them as “freaks”, “psychos”, “sheep”, “fools”, “ignorant”, and “uneducated” to name but a few. We are dividing ourselves and “A house divided against itself cannot stand” (Abraham Lincoln). We my friends are fractured and broken and are warring against ourselves not usually with shot and powder but with words. In the word of Jesus Christ,
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man .For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” (Mat. 15:18-19)
Yes I am asserting that from these words there may come a time when blood, fire, lead, and steel may come together in a clash of the same proportions that was seen in the days of Lincoln. We have seen the most extreme act upon these corruptions of the heart and try to forcibly silence their opponents. We must not allow this to happen any longer. We must return we must change our hearts from the corrupt state that they are in and remember that above all else we are people and must be loyal to each other and do our best to protect each other, second we must be loyal to our families and protect them above all else, third we are loyal to our nation and our religious group and all other affiliations they are equal in my mind for no true and upright government would circumvent the rights of any people to believe a certain way and no group would allow their followers to bring down an institution of government that is supporting the rights of all people to their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am in support of fixing any institution that does not abide by its end of the social contract first by peaceable convincing and lastly by forcible coercion if fixing the problem peaceably is no longer a feasible option. This however will be discussed at some later date.
The purpose of this blog is to bring about a change and shift priorities back to what they should be and heal the wounds that are bleeding terribly. Each day I will post either a commentary on a news article that I believe is most pressing or I shall post a commentary on and idea that I believe is skewed and define it as I believe it should be so that my commentary makes more sense so that we all can work together to bring about this great and marvelous change.
My fellow members of the human family and, more specifically, my fellow Americans where are we? We are in a state of fear distrusting one another hating and backbiting we are corrupting ourselves from the inside. In my favorite fantasy series The Wheel of Time there is an ancient and ruined city called Shadar Logoth. This place and all its inhabitants were utterly destroyed. They were not however destroyed by an outside force but from within. They distrusted each other hated each other. This was the ultimate demise not only of that city but of the whole of the nation. We my fellow Americans and my friends of the human family are in a very similar albeit less fantastic situation. We are divided as Americans on party lines. We are divided against each other based upon lines of religious affiliation or lack thereof. We are divided along lines of high schools, sports affiliations, philosophies, ideologies, and we are even so petty as to create our own caste system in our mind that the group that we associate with is the elite group and all that comes from the mouth of this group is the way that the problem must be solved. That is until we disagree with a member of our caste and then it ultimately comes down to the fact that we are the soul authority on everything and that we are incapable of being wrong. This is death. Yes this way of thinking is death to a nation and to individuals. This is the great destroyer of people this sense of being absolutely correct in all things and distrusting any opposition and attempting to label them as “freaks”, “psychos”, “sheep”, “fools”, “ignorant”, and “uneducated” to name but a few. We are dividing ourselves and “A house divided against itself cannot stand” (Abraham Lincoln). We my friends are fractured and broken and are warring against ourselves not usually with shot and powder but with words. In the word of Jesus Christ,
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man .For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” (Mat. 15:18-19)
Yes I am asserting that from these words there may come a time when blood, fire, lead, and steel may come together in a clash of the same proportions that was seen in the days of Lincoln. We have seen the most extreme act upon these corruptions of the heart and try to forcibly silence their opponents. We must not allow this to happen any longer. We must return we must change our hearts from the corrupt state that they are in and remember that above all else we are people and must be loyal to each other and do our best to protect each other, second we must be loyal to our families and protect them above all else, third we are loyal to our nation and our religious group and all other affiliations they are equal in my mind for no true and upright government would circumvent the rights of any people to believe a certain way and no group would allow their followers to bring down an institution of government that is supporting the rights of all people to their inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am in support of fixing any institution that does not abide by its end of the social contract first by peaceable convincing and lastly by forcible coercion if fixing the problem peaceably is no longer a feasible option. This however will be discussed at some later date.
The purpose of this blog is to bring about a change and shift priorities back to what they should be and heal the wounds that are bleeding terribly. Each day I will post either a commentary on a news article that I believe is most pressing or I shall post a commentary on and idea that I believe is skewed and define it as I believe it should be so that my commentary makes more sense so that we all can work together to bring about this great and marvelous change.
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