One of the major reasons people will vote liberal this year is the health care debate. They say that people might have the “right to health care” but they cannot afford it. The government is simply trying to help them “secure their rights.” Well let’s look at some ways that liberals deal in rights.

Last year Ted Kennedy was pushing for a bill which would put pastors and religious leaders in peril if they spoke out against homosexuality. He wanted this to be considered a “hate crime” and “domestic terrorism” and worthy of fine or imprisonment. Since when is disagreeing with something considered a hate crime and terrorism? Thank God the bill never passed but I believe it will come back (this was actually the second time Kennedy pushed that bill). Colorado is on the same course. They just recently passed a state bill that banned printed material which was anti-homosexual. This could easily be the Bible.  A friend of mine in Colorado emailed me and said, "My pastor has been saying for a while that it would be very easy under our state's current laws for him to be arrested and brought up on felony charges just for what he preaches from the pulpit....pathetic!" All this is a major violation of the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion. But hey! These same people are going to help us “secure our right to health care.”

What about parental rights over their children? The home-schooling movement really began to pick up in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. The movement has been targeted by government since its inception. Many parents had their children taken away because of the practice. Many states have tried to ban the practice completely. Many have VERY strict rules about it and if a parent deviates then they could have their child taken away. This all comes from the mindset that the government knows what is best and anyone who does not “fall in” will be targeted for discrimination. But hey! These same people are going to help us “secure our right to health care.”

What about the Fairness Doctrine? Ever heard of that? The liberals in Congress (the same ones who want to push the “right to health care”) have been pushing this forward for a long time. It would essentially put restrictions on what is said in the media. Penalties would come from not being “fair.” But who considers what is fair? The answer: our friends in Congress who know what is best for us and know what we need to hear. This is a MAJOR violation of the First Amendment, just like Kennedy’s bill. We may as well just rip that amendment out of the Constitution for all the good it is doing us. But hey! These same people are going to help us “secure our right to health care.”

What I am saying with all this is that the liberals have been the ones who have traditionally tried to restrict freedoms, not grant them. It is they who have been trying to undermine our rights which are so plainly granted in the Constitution. So when I hear these same people crying about the “right to health care” the little alarms in my mind start going off. These are not people who care about freedoms and rights. They care about their own agenda and power.

There is a new minority in America today. It is the people without healthcare. Statistics say that 40 million people do not have health insurance. Out of a country of 300 million that is a minority. What is sad is that politicians are now using the same rhetoric on these people that they have on minorities in the past.

How have politicians talked to minorities in the past?

Politicians have told minorities, “The problem is too big for you. The deck is stacked against you. Vote for us and we will take care of all your problems. If you will just yield more power to us, than we can deal with your problems.” Politicians have convinced minorities that they do not have what it takes to take care of themselves or their families.

This is the same rhetoric being used on people without health insurance. “The problem is too big for you. The deck is stacked against you. Vote for us and we will take care of all your problems. If you will just yield more power to us, than we can deal with your problems. You do not have what it takes to take care of yourself or your family.” The same old rhetoric.

I used to look at how minorities were being treated by politicians who claimed to be helping and think, “Why don’t they have more faith in themselves? Don’t they believe they can take care of themselves? Do they really believe that only the politicians can save them?”

My great-grandfather was a full-blooded American Indian. He lived when the government was beginning to give free handouts to Indians but he always refused to accept any of it. He said, “What the government gives, the government can take away.” He worked to support himself and his family and he succeeded. I believe in so doing he passed on a legacy to his descendants that stressed the importance of working hard, taking care of your family yourself, and not looking to Papa Congress to help you but rather having the audacity to look to God for help. It made him stronger and I believe it has made me stronger.

I currently do not have health insurance. I am part of the new minority. For a while I could not figure out what it was about the health care debate that bothered me so much until I realized the rhetoric being used, how it was used before, and how it has not changed…only now it is being told to me personally. The government and others are now trying to tell me how I can not help myself. They tell me how the problem is too big for me and how I need help from the government to solve my problems.