People who lose their jobs and their health insurance can still get the care they need.  The question has always been, who pays for it?  Our church has door offerings all the time for people who have fallen on hard times.  We don't show them the way to the nearest government office.  We personally help each other.

The point I have been making for months on here and at CouleeConservatives.com is that our nation must get out of the selfish habit of shifting our personal responsibilities to the government.  When someone in your family needs help do you ignore them and insist that there is a government program for them or do you make room in your home for them and open your wallet?

My wife informed me that we received our 2010 US Census form in the mail the other day.  I instructed her that I want to be the one to fill it out because I will answer N.O.Y.B. to those questions that are, frankly, none of the government’s business.  When my wife asked me, "What’s the big deal about telling them how old you are?"  I replied, "It’s not just about telling them how old I am.  It’s the principle that the federal government is not our master and I want to make that clear to them.  We must re-define the relationship between the individual and the federal government."

An online debate has been raging between those of us who believe in individual freedom and those who support the effort to enact government controlled health care legislation.  Here is one of the messages I submitted during the debate in response to Blink, a liberal who participates in many of these debates.

For most of the day Saturday I was one of many CSPAN viewers watching the debate on the Pelosi/Obama health care legislation at the House of Representatives.  I rarely watch proceedings like this because they are so full of baseless rhetoric and propaganda.  I have learned that you really must read the legislation for yourself in order to truly understand it because politicians have such a tendancy to exaggerate and over dramatize.  However, I did watch anyway because I was interested in how the Democrats would rationalize the destruction of freedom.<