Hands off my health care No CO style
For the second time in as many weeks, opponents of ObamaCare rallied in Fort Collins. The Loveland 9-12 Project and Tea Party of Northern Colorado organized the protest that saw some more 400 attendees according to the Coloradoan. That’s an incredible number of people for a protest on a Wednesday afternoon that was organized in just a few days.
The rallies are meant as a very strong message to freshman Democrat Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who I already think is going to have a difficult time getting re-elected due to her horrific vote on the Waxman-Markey bill (a.k.a. Cap and Trade).
What’s funny is how the left is potraying these grassroots protest. Michael Huttner of ProgressNow, in a press release available on Face the State, called the rally “about as grassroots as Kim Jong Il’s last birthday party.” I give him credit for being humorous, but he’s also arrogant and misinformed. A warning to the arrogant Left, you ridicule this movement at your own peril. The Left, with all its money and power, has become the establishment, and now they must protect their turf. They underestimate the passion and organization of the limited government movement.
Check out listener and photographer Jerry Long’s photos of the rally. You’ll see men and women, old and young. This is “hands off my health care No CO style.”
BTW — I was in Denver for the Hands Off My Health Care rally at the Capitol. About 500 to 600 people attended.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
You really confuse me. The arrogant left? What is arrogant about wanting to ensure people have healthcare? Wouldn’t it be arrogant to actually believe that you deserve health insurance, but other people don’t? And Obamacare doesn’t exist, never has. Get off it already.
BTW - If you really want to impress people, try spell-checking before you hit “submit”
November 29th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Amanda –
So glad that I motivated you to join the dialogue.
As for your question, the Left is arrogant to dismiss the movement of those who oppose government-dictated healthcare. Although I give Senator Michael Bennet credit. At least, he understands that he may lose his job because he supports Obamacare. Healthcare is not a right.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:20 am
Amy-
I am trying my hardest to understand what is happening here. If healthcare is not a right, what is it? If you consider it a privilege, what happens to the under-privileged?
December 1st, 2009 at 8:15 pm
The “under-privileged” are served by non-profits and our social safety net but there is no “right” to health care. Simply being born an American does not grant anyone the right to enter a hospital or doctor’s office and demand treatment.
Why do you think health care is a right?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:16 am
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
That’s why.
There is no “right” to wear jean jackets either; some things should just come down to common sense.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Why do you think it’s a privilege?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Oh I really hoped that you would write back. I am sorry for what I wrote about misspelling. I do it too.
December 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Sorry for not writing sooner. I’ve been a bit busy. No worries about the comment about misspelling. It’s true. I am convinced that if we ever have a nuclear holocaust (not hoping for one though) the only things to survive will be cockroaches and my typos and other misspellings.
As for health care, I don’t agree that the right to health care is included in the preamble of the our Constitution.
Our Founding Fathers said we have a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” You have a right to opportunites to feed, clothe and care for yourself. But you have no right to get food, shelter, clothes and health care simply because you were born an American. You have no right to force your neighbor to pay for it.
Health care for instance. If it is a right, who gives it to you? Government? Government doesn’t give rights, it exists only to protect the rights of the individual.
How does government pay health care if it is a right? By forcing your neighbor to pay higher taxes. So government infringes upon your neighbor’s right to his life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in order to pay for your health care. If you want health care, pay for it. It’s not the responsibility of your neighbor.
Good conversation Amanda. Thanks.
December 7th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Hi Amy,
Thanks for writing back. I am writing a problem-solution paper and your views, although they differ from my own, are quite helpful. I feel that the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are absolutely hindered by an individuals ill health.
While I don’t necessarily believe that government should pay for health care, I do believe it is their responsibility to undo the damage caused by Republican’s who not only allowed, but even encouraged huge corporations like UnitedHealth, Aetna, Cigna, and others to make health insurance big business.
The same government who we trust to protect us from terrorists and other “outside” threats, does nothing to protect us from our own domestic greed? It’s not right. When profiteering crosses the line between necessity and luxury, “necessity” becomes relative, and people lose their lives.
So while it may not be the government’s responsibility to provide healthcare, it is very much their responsibility to ensure we have access to it. It may cost money to fix things, like create a non-profit health insurance option, but the alternative is unacceptable. With 47 million Americans without health insurance (9 million kids), I would hope that we could all agree, it is time to pay the piper.
For the record, my family and I have health insurance. I only happen to believe that all for one and one for all is what makes a nation strong.
“We could have saved the world, but we were too damned cheap!”
~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“The profit system follows the path of least resistance, and the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Makes it Serpentine. Capitalism is the devil’s wet dream”.
~Ani Difranco, Serpentine
Have a good day!