It's called Calvinball. :-)
Posted on 11/20/2013 7:13:42 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
When I was a teenager, we loved to play baseball, and in my neighborhood there were two teams. Both of them were quite good, but they were bitter rivals. It was not uncommon for fights to break out when they played each other.
On one very memorable day, a very boastful team from another neighborhood challenged our neighborhood to a game. Their team was quite formidable by reputation, and neither of our teams would likely have been able to beat them. We decided to put aside our differences and use our strongest players to form one neighborhood team to take up the challenge. It was one of the most memorable games in my life, and we absolutely slaughtered the competition. That was the beginning of many lasting friendships and the end of an unproductive rivalry.
The reason for the great success of our new neighborhood team was a recognition that we were much stronger when we combined our forces and stopped fighting each other. Is there a lesson to be learned here by those individuals who represent all Americans in both houses of Congress, the executive branch and the Supreme Court?
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There is no question that we need health care reform, but there is a major question about whether it should be something that is imposed upon the people by a government that thinks it knows what is best for everyone, or whether it would be better to create a system that preserves the freedom of choice and liberty of all Americans?
Usually when a complex issue is tackled, it is wise to define the basic goals of everyone involved. I think it would be wise for a health care reform plan to include the following:
• Basic medical and surgical coverage for every single American.
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America has no problems that MADE IN THE USA won’t solve.
In baseball, the rules are already established. In politics - one party keeps reinventing the rules that they completely ignore while enforcing on the other party.
It's called Calvinball. :-)
Last night on Brett’s news, he played a clip where the quarterback took the ball and ran to the sideline yelling “new ball, we need a new ball” He was waving the ball around as he headed toward the bench.
Both lines stood up and just relaxed.
On reaching the sideline, the quarter back tucked in the ball and sprinted down the fiels d and across the goal line for a touch down
Hilarious! I suppose it would only work once, though.
No, we should never elect a socialist.
Mr Carson is proposing a government driven setup that guarantees medical service to everyone, paid for by a graduated income tax (via forced proportional insurance rates ; I'm assuming proportional to income).
The only thing remotely free or capitalist about this is that he mentions using insurance as the funding vehicle.
Medical help is not a human right. Universal health care becomes a form of slavery for those forced to pay. It will engender great enmity between those who pay and those who get. It will greatly decrease the sense that we are all in this together, and greatly increase the ability to use divide and conquer politics.
God bless this man. We would be so much better off if his good sense was followed, but I am not holding my breath.
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