Now It's The Far Left's Turn To Get It!

And, you won't see me use the word "liberal"--because the true meaning of the word hardly fits this bunch. Yes, far left, they've earned as much of the moderates' wrath as the far right-wing nutjobs (wingnuts). And with me, the far left has earned more!

My principal issues with the far left is these: First,the love affair with the government tit. Yes, it seems they believe that our nation's economic and social quagmire can be dried up and paved over by one government entity after another. Sadly, though, that pavement soon turns into potholes, and then getting those potholes filled takes months because of all the bureaucracy that a government agency comes with. And we haven't even begun to talk about how we're going to pay for the plastic surgery to increase the size of the government tit. But the far left doesn't seem to care about trivial details like that--just increase taxes and justify it by talk of "leveling the playing field".

Which leads to my second beef: a sense of entitlement, particularly when it comes to the health care debate. I've heard it from everybody from Facebook friends to leftist pundits: everybody deserves affordable health care. And, in some cases, everybody deserves free health care through a nationalized health care system. To both I vehemently disagree! Not EVERYBODY deserves health care--free or otherwise. For those that willingly ignore their health by smoking? They don't deserve free health care--they deserve lung cancer and/or emphasyma. For those that willingly eat 100-times the recommended daily allowance of simple carbohydrates (sugar)? You deserve type-2 diabetes. You don't deserve me and others who willingly live healthy lives and make healthy choices to be a breast pump for your government tit. And I'm willing to bet you that at least 50% of the nearly 46-million uninsured Americans fall in the aforementioned category. For the rest, I will say there does need to be health care reform to make their health insurance not only affordable, but TIMELY. And it's on the timeliness that nationalized health care will fail, and fail miserably. All one has to do is observe the speed of other government agencies doing what they do. SLOOOOOOWWWW!! So, don't think a government agency over your health care will be any different. And, I'd bet the far left would be the first to find something to bitch about it.

Now, I'm not going to begin to say the debate over health care reform is easy--it's obviously not. But I'll be dipped in green doo-doo before I subsidize somebody else's health care beyond my own charitable deed--lest those that refuse to take care of themselves and/or educate themselves about their best present health care options pay the consequences.

Yes, it seems the far left simply doesn't like to talk about consequences. Dirty word--that "consequences". And one of the consequences of centralization of power through massive government is designed to have the government tit help level the economic playing field--i.e. socialism, which leads to communism, which doesn't work. Do the letters "U-S-S-R" come to mind? Total government led to pittance wages and a destitute life for a vast majority of its citizens. In fact, there was a saying from 'ol Russia: "They pretend to pay us, so we pretend to work." Well, that's what happens when you tax the well-to-do to death, and the far left has no use for the rich--unless it's them. And, like it or not, you need the rich to be charitable to help the poor and downtrodden that the far left says it champions. All of this has historical precedent.

Oh, and by the way, there's not much from the far left that is truly "liberal". Our Founding Fathers were true "liberals". Our democratic republic form or government is really a liberal form of government--you don't like your representatives? Change it--vote 'em out. How about checks & balances of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government--all to avoid what the far left wants: centralized government in the hands of a few. All of our founders weren't Christians. May were deists. Some had no faith. But they all ended up in agreement that a religious theocracy was not the way to go either--which evolved into separation of church and state. Yes, our Founding Fathers were true liberals, but today's far left resembles only a shell of Jefferson et.al.

Now, to be clear, I'm not talking about "moderate progressives" no more than I'm talking about "moderate conservatives" when I take the right wing nutjobs (wingnuts) to task for their perversion of conservatism. Both are extreme, and life on the extremes is simply impossible, both politically and culturally. I've said it before and I'll reiterate it again: it's the polarization of America--with more and more folks being sucked to the far right and the far left--that is the biggest danger to our nation. If both extremes had their way, only their very narrow point of view would be acceptable, and with meld of cultures and peoples that is present day Americana, that's not only absurd, it's dangerous. And the far left must be exposed and stood up to just as much as the far right.

From me, consider both extremes on notice. I pray my fellow moderates will follow suit.