Thoughts for the 4th of July... - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

mikemover · #1 07-04-2003, 04:16 AM

Here's Neal Boortz's comments on the holiday. I agree completely:

Oh wow. It’s the Fourth of July. Independence Day. Fireworks, ball games, picnics, parades, fun at the beach.

Those who have been listening to my show for any length of time at all know that I get somewhat surly (OK … even more surly) around this time of the year. Why? Because I get just a bit weary of watching myrmidons wave flags and mouth phrases of love for freedom and independence while, in reality, it may well be the last thing they want in their lives.

We live in an entitlement era. It seems as if everyone has a long list of things to which they are entitled. Americans think they have a “right” to a job, a place to live, a living wage (whatever that is), and to be free from having to endure anything that might offend their delicate sensitivities. And this “independence” thing? That’s the last thing that many, even most Americans want. We’re building a dependency culture, not an independent one!

Look .. I don’t want to dwell on this and ruin your holiday; and believe me, if I spent a few thousand words here documenting how the average American has abandoned the idea of freedom and self reliance your Fourth would be ruined. Let’ me just ask you if you will do something. I want you to write a letter to your congressman and your senators. I want you to tell them that you really got to thinking while watching people working on their melanomas on the beech, and you want the government to do something for you. You want the government to cut you loose.

Tell your congressman that you want to be free to establish your own relationship with your employer. No minimum wages. No mandated benefits. You want to negotiate your own employment contract with your employer, and the only thing you want the government to do is to help you enforce it through the courts if your boss starts screwing around.

Tell your elected officials that you do not believe that you have a right to health care. Tell them that you do not wish to use the police power of government to force someone else to provide you with medications or medical services. Write that you are perfectly willing to assume the total and complete responsibility for acquiring your own health insurance, all you want them to do is eliminate the mandates and allow you to shop for just the coverage you desire. Be sure to add that in the event you get sick without insurance, or you can’t cover the costs, you absolutely do not want the government to step in and spend one dime of someone else’s money on your care.

Tell them that you want an end to Social Security. You want out. You will be responsible for setting up your retirement plan and you will be willing to suffer the consequences in old age if you fail to do so. Tell your representatives that in a free society the government shouldn’t take money from people who are now working just to give it to people who are not.

Maybe you will want to tell your senators and congressman that you have no interest what other people do in the privacy of their own homes. You don’t want any laws that regulate their sexual conduct, and you don’t want them punished if they sit out in the back yard under the stars at night puffing on some marijuana.

Inform your representatives that you want to be free to make your own consumer choices, and that includes choices of which professional you want to use for medical and legal services. Tell them that you are perfectly willing to rely on your own judgment, or the judgment of private accrediting agencies when it comes to selecting an attorney or a doctor. You might add that you don’t like the idea that you have to go to the government to ask who may and who may not clip your fingernails.

When you have written that letter … then you can go out and proclaim your love of freedom.

www.boortz.com

Happy 4th of July,
Mike