Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Asleep At The Wheel
Ever since 9/11 there has been a public debate over whether it was the Bush or Clinton administration that failed to recognize the threat from al Qaeda and properly protect America from terrorists. In my opinion there is plenty of blame to go around. Apparently, it was far from a secret that airline security was full of holes and that there were some very evil individuals who wanted the United States to disappear from the face of the earth.
As I've pointed out before, the federal government is distracted as our elected representative worry about all sorts of things beyond their legitimate authority as granted in our constitution. The President and Congress have one major responsibility and that is to protect our ability to pursue the rights of life, liberty and happiness (the founders believed that our right to own and dispose of property was inherent in our right to life). Everything else they spend their time on, from gay marriage to HIPPA to prescription drugs to ergonomic safety in the workplace is extraneous, and as we learned a couple of years ago, dangerous to our health. Its time Americans demanded that the government get out of our lives and focus on preserving our ability to live.
Now we have word (again, nothing we didn't already know) that social security and Medicare are going broke. Let's you and I predict whether we will have an honest discussion of privatizing social security and using medical savings accounts to avert the coming fiscal catastrophes.
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As I've pointed out before, the federal government is distracted as our elected representative worry about all sorts of things beyond their legitimate authority as granted in our constitution. The President and Congress have one major responsibility and that is to protect our ability to pursue the rights of life, liberty and happiness (the founders believed that our right to own and dispose of property was inherent in our right to life). Everything else they spend their time on, from gay marriage to HIPPA to prescription drugs to ergonomic safety in the workplace is extraneous, and as we learned a couple of years ago, dangerous to our health. Its time Americans demanded that the government get out of our lives and focus on preserving our ability to live.
Now we have word (again, nothing we didn't already know) that social security and Medicare are going broke. Let's you and I predict whether we will have an honest discussion of privatizing social security and using medical savings accounts to avert the coming fiscal catastrophes.
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