Tifton Gazette

Opinion

May 13, 2010

Your Opinion: Planning changes in November

TIFTON — “There are none so blind as those who will not see,” a quote attributed to John Heywood in 1546, still rings true today. Please tell me why anyone would want government-controlled health care! All one has to do is look at all of the other government-controlled entities to see where we are headed: Social Security — broke; post office — $2.8 billion in the red in 2009; Fannie Mae — broke; Freddie Mac — broke; Medicare — broke; Medicaid — broke.

You name it, if it’s a government-run agency it is bankrupt. Yet G.W. Tibbetts wants you to believe that the recently passed government-run health care plan will be beneficial to everyone.

Or is Tibbetts just touting the Democratic tax and spend, redistribution mantra. The current estimates of the cost for Obamacare exceeds $1 trillion and this estimate does not take into account businesses such as IBM, Caterpillar, GE and many others that will likely drop their current health care plans for employees because the government penalty will be far more economical.

Where do we stop the deficit spending? Our national debt now stands at over $12.9 trillion. If you are like me, that’s a figure that I cannot comprehend. Take a look at the national debt clock to see just how fast our national debt is increasing. Our national debt has increased by $4.3 billion every day since September 2007.

And to top that, Obamacare will cost additional billions if not trillions that we do not have. Where will it end?

Again this morning we hear that Freddie Mac needs another $8.4 billion and that the European Union needs $1 trillion as a bailout, much of which will come from American taxpayers.

Two quotes from Thomas Jefferson are very pertinent to where we find ourselves:

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give it to those who would not.”

and

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debt as it goes, a principle if which acted on would save one-half of the wars of the world.”

Fellow Americans, we must put an end to this irrational spending and we must do it now. Our elected representatives in Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, have lost all sense of reason when it comes to spending our hard-earned tax dollars.

We will have an opportunity in November to begin to rectify this situation. I am afraid if we wait until 2012 it will be too late and we will be bankrupt like Greece or many third-world countries. Think long and hard before you cast your vote. I don’t know about you, but I am not happy with our current government and plan to make a “real change” come November.



Sincerely,



Robert E. Lynch

Tifton

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