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3:10 to Wage Garnishment
Category: Hillary, Hillary Care, Liberalism, MoviesThis was a pretty good weekend for me. On Saturday I finished a difficult home project of building a decorative fireplace mantle and yesterday I watched a great movie I had rented called 3:10 to Yuma. The movie was a remake of the 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Russell Crowe plays a desperado whose accomplices stage an ambush after he is taken into custody by a determined local sheriff. I recommend the movie to anyone who enjoys a good western.
I guess the weekend was just too good to be true and it didn’t take long for Monday morning to rear its ugly head. So, I wake up this morning to the news that Hillary plans on garnishing the wages of those who don’t choose to buy into her health care plan. This is the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard. Why did she have to ruin my wonderful weekend with her disturbingly outrageous Monday morning announcement?
If that wasn’t bad enough, then I had to read the article Hillary wrote in this mornings WSJ Opinion Page title My Plan for Shared Prosperity. If this doesn’t prove that she is a bona fide Socialist and off her rocker, nothing will.
When my son was born in 1971, I had no health insurance and paid the doctor and hospital bill out of my own pocket. At the time, I was earning less than $4K a year as a struggling salesman. I didn’t much like writing the check but it was my responsibility to pay the bill and I did what I had to do. I also made the personal decision to pursued other employment and training in a career that would provide me with a marketable skill and a decent health care plan. In other words, I chose to be a responsible person and earn my own prosperity. As it turned out, it was the best decision I ever made and I’m proud, yet humble, of my life’s accomplishments. The last thing in the world I would have ever wanted was a “shared prosperity.” Shared prosperity is un-American concept and those who promote it are to be feared. The proponents of this type of thinking want nothing more than power for themselves and to steal our individual freedoms away from us.
I guess I’m old fashioned but I can’t seem to grasp the concept that I need government providing me with everything “they” think I need from cradle to the grave. I have too much-self respect. I’m warning you…be careful what you wish for. Hillary is a real life desperado who plans to ambush us with her socialism. As Dan Ford over at Sassafrassin said:
Sphere: Related ContentTo paraphrase Mao, obviously one of Hillary’s idols, “Good health care flows from the barrel of a gun.”
You are clearly a mean-spirited and cruel person, who are you to expect people to have to fend for themselves? Personal responsibility? Are you some sort of troglodyte? Clearly you have no clue when it comes to the government nanny state taking care of everyone from the cradle to the grave! How dare you pay that hospital bill all on your own!
As I approach my 61st birthday and find myself saying AMEN to each of the points you have made, I can’t help but think I am sounding more like my father with each birthday. “When I was your age…” he would say. We are raising a generation of “entitled” children who will expect the government teat to be there in the event of any life crisis. They won,t run home to the parents, they will run to the closest government office. I remember a family in my neighborhood when I was 10 years old. The Dad of the family lost his job. I remember the whole neighborhood pitching in to help that family get through their tough situation. Nobody asked. They just did it. The other families took turns making dinner. They seemed to find school clothes (just the right size) for his 2 daughters. The neighbors even chipped in to help pay the utilities. The neighborhood Doctor just took care of things for them.There was no welfare. There was no food stamp program. There was no medical card. Just real good neighbors with a Christian spirit of giving. I will never forget the following summer, after he got a new job, that neighbor hosted a fish fry for the whole neighborhood. He was a great fisherman and that fresh Lake Erie Perch was the best. That was the first time I saw a keg of beer. (Koehler Lager of course) Maybe Hillary will garnish our wages to provide for the unemployed neighbors. OH, WAIT! I forgot! They already do that. Boy am I sounding like my Dad.
I must say…I love that word Troglodyte. This over-the-hill coot had to look the word up ’cause I didn’t know what the heck it meant. I suppose you’re right about me though. I clearly have my values and priorities ingrained bass-ackwards if Hillary’s views on personal responsibilities are the norm.
P.S. - Did you ever notice how Hillary always uses the word clearly in her rhetorical speeches?