Next week, the US Senate is slated to take up a long-planned and unprecedented overhaul of the American health care system. In such an effort, I’m certain these law makers will overlook a huge but hidden cost of their massive national healthcare program; that being, the indubitable spike in high blood pressure among those tax payers who read newspaper articles about healthcare reform and then pace across the kitchen, fuming. To wit: My husband.
I hope Altace is one of the drugs the government plans to hand out like candy on Halloween when it imposes its new system to assure our good health.
Of course, pacing through the room while muttering eloquent, yet undelivered remarks to Congress and the President doesn’t actually give my husband any control over the folks who plan to collect yet more tax dollars disguised as “investments,” but combined with a low-fat diet and increased aerobic exercise, it’s about all my poor breadwinner can do to keep from blowing a gasket.
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Since the government spending train to multi-generational public debt left the station, we began to realize that the future direction of our nation is something we simply can’t control. At the rate our federal government is spending and growing, the Republic that Ben Franklin dared us to maintain could be a distant memory by the time our 11-year-old is eligible to vote. Already, Franklin and the founders probably wouldn’t recognize their grand experiment anyway.
Unfortunately, unlike my husband, muttering and fuming doesn’t make me feel better. So I’m focusing on something I can control: The caliber of the citizens being raised in our household.
If you think about it, much of the power among “we the people” rests with “we the parents.”
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