A Reckoning

I think I know what bothers me about the whole healthcare thing and it is a little alarming and disarming to me because it makes me have to think and feel about a few certain things that I, quite frankly, take for granted in my life.

I grew up learning from a generation that took responsibility for themselves as well as their family. There was no passing the buck when it came to taking care of your family, especially your children. You went without so your kids were taken care of and you didn’t complain because you would have received no compassion from anyone because they were all doing the same thing for their family.

When Paula and I had 3 kids in braces; we didn’t have lavish vacations and some years none at all. We didn’t have expensive electronics because our kids' needs came first. We had priorities that I don’t see much today in the next generation. They want all the bells and whistles in life and they want what is “entitled” to them namely that other people pay for their children’s care because they need the other things in their life.

A lot has been bantered about in the past few weeks regarding this new “entitlement” and I think that I did not pay close enough attention to the word as it was being used to correlate it to the people that most wanted this to pass. It is the current generation of “entitled” persons.

As I thought about this it became perfectly clear that they do not want health care as much as they want everything served on a silver platter for them to take. Next will come dental care, vision and any other need that they feel that they can’t pay for or don’t want to pay. They fail to understand what it takes to put the product on the platter and the work and sacrifice of others to make it happen for them and they don’t need to because they are “entitled”.

They also fail to honor those that do; so that those who can’t will get what is needed. But when you put your own special needs and concerns before the good of the people then it is easy to be thankful for all the new stuff the government has just rolled out on their rather well used and tax payer paid for silver platter.

I learned early in life that nothing is free but I think the next generation does not believe that but I can tell you that when the I.R.S. starts sharing your tax information across department lines under the new law and starts taking money from your bank account without your permission…well I think you kinda get where I am going with this.

So sip the Kool-aid I am sure it taste good now but you will be paying for it sometime down the road because the government has never had a “free” program.