Wouldn’t it be nice? Wouldn’t it be wonderful:  If we lived in a society that could afford national health care for all who reside within our borders – legally?

Certainly.

But we do not live in such a society; nor have we ever; nor will we ever.

Still, the leftist gangs who have hijacked the American legislative processes, and executive functions are bent on ba functional system that provides health care for the majority of us, in order to install a theoretical system that (under the best of circumstances) will provide questionable services to slightly more (but not all) of us.

Accompanying significant degradation of services to those of us already covered (mostly to our satisfaction) will be an increased tax burden stacked atop tax schedules already groaning under the weight of uncounted socialistic services to the very few who are most likely to benefit from the health care carnage.

And all this is being done in leftist legislative Star Chamber, clearly mocking not only the 80% or so of the citizens who want nothing to do with the proposed train wreck, but also the legislative processes as they were intended by The Founders.  American legislative processes are off the rails (by design in my opinion) and they will soon carry our functional health care system with them over the bridge and into the canyon.

Battle lines are formed along undisciplined political party structures with defectors crossing lines at will and for their own reasons. This is the poorest method to provide even a semblance of a balanced solution to the overall health care problem – unfortunately there appears to be no better method available for resolution.

So, where are we in the national health care argument?

Quibbling.  Bickering over particulars; unable or unwilling to see the larger questions governing utopian-like cradle-to-grave health care for one and all.  Are we really prepared to be content with an exorbitantly costly national health care mediocrity shoved down our throats?

I don’t think so.

So, why have we forfeited the legal and moral high ground in the larger battle for our individual and collective rights?

From the beginning of the argument it seems that we in opposition to this leftist monstrosity have been willing to accept without argument the premise that health care and related services are entitlements for all within our borders; and that as such they become constitutional ‘rights’.

Are they?  Constitutional rights?

If so, under which Article of the Constitution are they expressly guaranteed? If not the constitution – then what other authority (ies)?

Are we with functional health care morally obligated to accept a degradation of these (paid) services for more costly substandard services so that uncovered ‘others’ can be covered under?

Where is it written?

Nowhere.

And so why have we forfeited the legal and moral high ground in this battle – without so much as a whimper?  Is it because some of us no longer see any reason to defend them.

GEB

Some R/S readers know that I am a retired Army officer; thus this comment derives from that experience.

There are homosexuals in the Army (all services).

Gasp’

How can this be true.

That is the way it is, that is the was it has been and that is the way it shall always be.  – The End.

So, how has the Army managed all those decades with ‘Homos and ‘Fags’ in it’s ranks?

Well, to begin with: Nobody gave a damn.  It wasn’t an issue – especially within the ranks. There were homosexuals at Valley Forge, the Marne, Iwo Jima, Bastogne, Pork Chop Hill, the Ia Drang and Hamburger hill – all of these, and many more.  I wonder how many homosexuals are buried at Arlington; and do their neighbors complain? I don’t remember reading anything about soldiers complaining about serving with a homosexual.

You see – for all you politicians and ‘activists’ out there – among the ranks it isn’t about your life style, it is about how you do your job.

Foxhole somewhere near the enemy:   ‘Okay, so you’re a homo; how many magazines have you got left? and do you have any extra Pall Malls. I’ll trade you my pork patties for your tuna and noodles. We’re on 50 % alert tonight. You wanna take the first or second shift.

Oh, by the way, did I mention:  keep your hands to yourself or I’ll kick your ass.  . . . Coffee . . .?

‘Don’t ask. Don’t Tell’ was the solution arrived at by soldiers long before Bill Clinton could spell: d-r-a-f-t  d-o-d-g-e-r.

So, who made this an issue in the first place?-and why?

My advice:  Keep your hands off this issue.  It isn’t a political problem in the ranks – yet.  Don’t make it an issue until homosexuality in the military begins to affect The Mission. Leave it alone. We can live with it.

And, by the way . . .No!- am am not a homosexual. Never was never will be. I am very adverse to that life style; makes me shudder to think about it. But, I have friends – more than a few long-time friends who are homosexuals, are discreet in their public behavior and remain good friends (except that one of them once caught a much larger Bass than I – and will NOT let that issue die).

Let it alone. Let the troops to deal with it in the ranks – that’s where it matters anyway.

Oh, and one more thing:  Homosexuals are not ‘Gay’; they are homosexuals, and no amount of euphemisms will- chase away that fact. If homosexuals are ‘Gay’, what are we straight folk? SAD.

Hi. I’m SAD. Oh, poor fellow. I’m GAY.

oh, bummer . . . . .

I’ve been with RedState for 4 years and 5 months. I’ve witnessed this sight grow from something little more than  conservative political chat room to the intellectual political heavy weight forum it has become; and RedState is one of the very best on line today – in my opinion.

Personally, I have witnessed (and became somewhat involved in) most of the  governmental and political travesties perpetrated upon this nation and its citizens over three decades (+).

I have become jaded by the experience.

Trained as a political historian, a retired Army officer with 26 years of active duty, afterward a business man and now a writer/author, my accumulated views about the intrusive national political/governmental processes which govern our lives have crystallized into one straightforward conclusion:  Very few, if any of the processes, work for anyone but the participants in them, and those whose interested are vested  with the ‘players’.

In other words we Americans are now without a government the likes of which was intended by the men who developed our constitution. As an aside, if I were one of the gods of education I would require high school students to read and demonstrate a workable knowledge of the Federalist and Anti Federalists papers.  Knowledge of our badly battered and often abused Constitution is not enough to underdtand how government works today.

Therefore my friends, Yahuti is in the process of developing a website  that will deal not with political/governmental issues of the day (as RedState does so remarkably well) but with those of tomorrow. Our underlying philosophy is that our current system of governance is broken beyond repair, and that the remnant of it has been hijacked by those with little interest in doing anything about it.

We intend to analyze and deconstruct our current system, then develop and test suitable alternatives and remedies  to consider as our current system whirls itself into oblivion, or complete domination over all of us.

RedState , please continue to ‘hold the ground’ while our small group finds an alternative method of avoiding the need to expend the effort to make a dysfunctional political/governmental system to function in our collective benefit – as it was original intended.

This not goodbye.  Yahuti will continue to read and participate here – as before while we construct our site, and afterwords, as well.

Kudos to RedState founders and editors.

Bravo to the writers and other participants.

Yahuti

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