Published: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 / Updated: Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 11:34 AM
Health bill squashes freedom
I’m sorry I cannot be as happy as Kathy Cantrell was on Christmas Eve watching as the U.S. Senate passed the most sweeping health care bill.
This was a bill that had to move quickly on behind closed doors. Many deals were cut and still going on.
I remember reading that President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to sell it during his term, but to no avail. Everyone should read the United States Constitution. In no where does it say we promise a sweeping health care plan. Thirty-nine delegates signed the finished document. During the signing, Benjamin Franklin referring to the sun painted on the back of Washington chair, said, “Now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.”
We have lost many of our rights as Americans just to placate a small and vocal minority who cast themselves as perpetual victims. I’m sorry, in listening to President Barack Obama, that he doesn’t give me new understanding, new strength, new hope and certainly, no new sense of freedom.
At the ballot box is where you make your civic statement known and you should know that, Kathy. Let’s not trade our freedom of choice for affordable health care.
VELMA GRIZZLE, Fort Mill
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