Those who write to the Voices column never cease to amaze me, but they shouldn’t. Yet the letter to Voices in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, 01-08-2010, created more amazement. The writer is sure that many people like the health bill and the reason more letters don’t appear in support of it is because those who don’t “may not have the time or wherewithal to write as others have.” That is implying that only the retirees and the wealthy are the only ones who have the time and money to write. Such insight is most amazing. That the majority of the people don’t want the monstrosity is apparently unimportant.

Then the writer made another amazing statement. The writer asked, “Won’t the concerns about the deficits in Medicare and Social Security be healed when our economy takes hold again?” The answer is no. Why? Both were in the red long before the economy began to go into the tank and an improvement in the funds available won’t do anything but prolong the inevitable crash of both programs.

More amazing thoughts escaped from the writer’s brain and appeared in print. The writer questioned the stance of those who are Christians since they are against the bill and thought that those who write letters against the health bill might be millionaires who didn’t want to pay more taxes; so the writer trotted out the line that Christ admonished those who are rich to support the poor. Yes he did do so, but he didn’t say that help was to come from the government in any manner shape or form.

Almost on queue, the writer used the rich young ruler and the instruction from Jesus to sell his goods and give to the poor to achieve eternal life, in an attempt to prove the point that the rich were to help the poor through taxation. The truth is that the ruler was putting his trust in his riches and Jesus told him to sell them and trust in God for his salvation. Here is what transpired between Jesus and the man. Jesus had been explaining the law. We’ll begin with verse 20 of Matthew 19: 20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. That the man couldn’t bear to part with his possessions is the teaching. There isn’t one word about him being taxed to support the poor through government programs. Government taxation will not bring salvation to anyone and neither will more taxes to pay for the health bill.

It is most amazing how those who know little of the Bible use it to try to prove things of which they have little knowledge. But they do prove that they are biblically ignorant and the ones who support big government and more taxes generally fall into the biblically ignorant category. They also fall into the constitutionally ignorant category and prove it every time they champion more taxes and government solutions for problems that the government in the main created.

The path to where we are today as a republic began with FDR and his social welfare ideas. Government health care will only add to the broken pavement littered with failed programs that are leading us to destruction; going from a once independent people who now are increasingly dependent on the government for everything.  

© 01-08-2010 DEC