Making Private Individuals More Accountable than Government

I’ll say this for liberals: they’re consistent. Consistently ignorant.

Take, for instance, the latest prattle from Cory Heidelberger at the Madville Times:

Quick thought: our elected officials are catching heck for not holding more town hall meetings to answer to their constituents for their health care policies. But why don’t we hear similar cries for the folks in charge of our health coverage now, our insurance agents and their managers and CEOs, to hold town halls and explain their inefficiency, their exclusion of maternity and pre-existing conditions, their unfair legal tactics and anti-competitive practices?

This kind of kindergarten-level understanding of American government and the American way of life are why we have many of the problems we face today.

First of all, our senators and representatives are elected officials. They are representatives of “we the people” and are charged with protecting the interest of those who elected them. They are charged with–and have sworn an oath to–uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution–which includes the limited government mandated under Article 1 Section 8 and in the Tenth Amendment.

Secondly, insurance agents, et al, are private individuals and private entities. They are no more accountable to Cory Heidelberger than I am. There is a difference between government and private which young minds like Cory’s somehow always fails to grasp.

If someone doesn’t like the behavior or services of a particular insurance agent or insurance company, thank God that in America we have the freedom to go somewhere else for goods and services. We can exercise liberty over our property (e.g. our money) via the freedom of the shoe leather express.  That freedom is one of the things that has made America great…and is one of the things in the cross hairs of this socialist takeover of health care. Our government, on the other hand, is the only one we have…and again, it is legally charged by the U.S. Constitution to be accountable to the people and to operate within the confines of said Constitution.

Inefficiency? Our incompetent federal government wrote the book on inefficiency.  This is the bloated, staggering entity which creates an unconstitutional program which runs out of money in a week, destroys perfectly good property, and can’t even give away “free” money in an efficient manner.  This is the god Cory worships?  I guess it’s true that there’s one born every minute…

And as for anti-competitive practices? You can thank Cory’s Government God for that. Government has had it’s grubby paws far too deep in the insurance, health and most every industry in our country for 60 years. Government is the entity which prevents insurance purchasing across state lines. Government is the entity which allows frivolous lawsuits and extreme monetary payouts to gold diggers. Government is the entity which makes a mess of the system, throws the free market off kilter, and drives up prices with its incompetence and lack of financial accountability.  This is the same anti-competitive movement seeking to institute a monolithic government health care system with this “public option” farce as the first step on the way.  The same anti-competitive liberals who scream to the highest heavens against the vouchers that could bring much-needed competition into our failing education system.  Liberals like the idea of competition?  Go pull my other leg now.

Seriously, I don’t mean to unfairly belittle the profoundly ignorant beliefs of Cory and others like him.  But these are extremely vital matters we’re dealing with in the welfare and survival of our country and our freedoms.  If ignorant comments are allowed to stand, they soon become accepted for truth, and that has gone on for far too long in the land of the free.

It’s time a lot of Americans like Cory grew up, got an education about how the U.S. Constitution says our government is supposed to operate, and started acting like Americans instead of European socialist sheep.  Our republic can’t survive much longer with the inmates running the asylum…or with children running the daycare.

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