Have you ever had that feeling when a singular thought keeps repeating itself over and over? Something that keeps running around in your head? Sometimes it’s a song. Sometimes it is a worry you can’t seem to put away. The bad ones seem to be most vibrant at bedtime when a person wants to sleep.
To older folks, health care issues are our worry. Younger people are concerned as well. Of particular significance is plans to remove our health care from the private sector and place it under government control with the supposed intent, we are told, of making it better and cheaper.
Is that a good idea?
What about the billions of wasted dollars currently spent on repetitive and unnecessary paperwork required by bloated agencies that continue to grow and grow? No one in Washington, DC seems interested in eliminating that spending.
As a result, substantial unnecessary financial burdens are placed on our health care providers requiring them to raise prices and limit services through the need to comply with needless paperwork. Of course, the government hires more people to handle the necessary paperwork. Some high-level politicians keep telling us that more government control will lower the cost of health care and make it universal for everyone.
Really? How does that work?
We hear much talk about poverty, yet more people are sliding under the poverty level. The latest numbers from the 2020 census show poverty increasing, with 11.4% living below the poverty level. At the same time, income is lower by 3%. Under today’s high inflation level, fuel prices through the ceiling, and grocery and clothing costs rising daily, many are concerned that the poverty level will be much higher next year.
Meanwhile, our country’s debt continues to soar, and the printing presses at the US Mint continue running, printing currency with no backing other than our country's reputation. Our gold standard was put to rest in 1971. Our money is described as “fiat” currency. If the value of our money is based on the value of our country, why has Washington, DC, ruptured a robust economy with runaway inflation and soaring energy prices resulting from our government shutting down what was a self-sufficient petroleum industry and placing our dependence oil in the hands of counties that hate us?
Perhaps this is one issue not to lose sleep over. After all, the President tells us all the time how great things are, and we should quit worrying.
Somehow that happy talk rings pretty hollow with the housewife buying groceries or the husband filling his vehicle up with gasoline to go to work. It raises the cost of e everything as all our food and other goods must be transported to us. Ask the next trucker how much it costs him to fill up with diesel fuel costing over $5.00 per gallon.
We are constantly told gun control is the answer to putting down violence in our streets. The media and left-wing politicians are continually screaming that message. The government must take over the control of all privately owned firearms in our country to make us safe. Disarming law-abiding people will stop the mayhem created by those who steal and use guns illegally.
Have you ever heard about a gun jumping out of the drawer, off a shelf, or from a gun safe, running out into the street all by itself, and then shooting someone? It is the human pulling the trigger that must be regulated. If all guns are removed, these people will find other methods to wreak their havoc on an unarmed society.
How do you think that is going to work? Thomas Jefferson said it best. “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
And what about welfare programs? Is it possible that many of these programs with big flashy titles were designed and passed by Congress not so much for the good of the people but rather as a method of tying up large blocks of voters? Have not entire neighborhoods and cities been turned into dangerous ghettos from these so-called “help people” programs? According to our country’s leadership, more and more people are in “need” of the government caring for them. Doesn’t that mean the government also controls them?
And how about those children or grandchildren of yours in school? It seems the basic skills we older folks were taught so we could work, earn and be successful, contributing citizens have vanished from the pages of our school books, replaced with “touchy-feely” stuff, and don’t you dare ever hurt someone's feelings! Sex education in third grade! Pronouns replace nouns in describing men and women! The “woke culture” has moved from the Internet to our children's desks. How will these youngsters survive in a world controlled by their government?
Does it bother you how God is being systemically removed from our lives? We have always practiced the separation of church and state. Nowhere in our history is it recorded that any specific religion was to be taught. Americans have always been free to worship as they please or not. Yes, we are a nation built on Biblical principles.
Why is that important?
A law is something written on a piece of paper. It means absolutely nothing if people will not recognize and obey the law. What causes people to be compliant with the law? How about respect, honor, concern for others, and a desire for a free and peaceful life? And those values come from the teachings in the Bible, the Torah, and other God-believing faiths.
Without them, we will become a lawless state, with people rioting and burning private property showing no respect for local police or individual rights. Violence will take over our streets in a society built without the principles of the Ten Commandments.
And finally, since politicians learned it is much easier to defeat a strong opponent with hate rather than issues, we have become a severely divided nation with no healing in sight. The generated hatred builds every day. The division in our country grows deeper and deeper.
We had a Civil War once over slavery. Rather than plantation owners and other wealthy individuals enslaving people, this time, it could well be the slaves owned by the government run by the elites against those desiring freedom and a peaceful, prosperous country.
It looks like another sleepless night with these thoughts going around and around in our heads.