Is it wrong for me to wish that every believer in something for nothing, let someone else pay for it, can't things all be free, and government will take care of me to have just a day in a country such as Cuba or North Korea or Iran or Soviet Georgia or Venezuela?
Can they have the flu and stand in line in Canada or Great Britain -- dressed as a 70-year-old who is deemed worthless, and unworthy of funds being expended?
Can they try life for a week as a small business owner trying to make payroll and having the lives of 10 families hanging in the balance while he has to decide which of the 10 to let go of to pay for the new costs of the remaining 9 that will now have to work longer hours?
Can they try life as an MD with a $100,000 malpractice bill, 3 active lawsuits over babies that no Doctor could create miracles for, $300,000 of medical debt, and 50 patients to see in one day so he can pay for 4 paperwork clerks, spend half his time filling out forms, be used as the verifier of vaccinations, sports physicals, existence of personhood for purposes of Social Security, and have to wait months to get reimbursed whie he, too, cannot make payroll and spends only 2 hours every 3 days at home with his own family.
Can they try life as a Pharmacist who cannot honor his conscience or be an administrator of a Catholic hospital forced to close because they refuse to take life?
Can they be the minister who has to look into the eyes of the person denied cancer treatment because a faceless bureaucrat afer 6 months' of paperwork denies their request because it's not cost-effective?
Can they see even the simple desperation of having to order drugs from India because the existing policies have donut holes, formularies, and such and the choice is between cat-food for supper or medecine that saves a life?
Can they just be human? Honorable? Respectful of their Creator? And their fellow man? Can they see for one minute the horror of war -- the American Revolution where freedom was bought at such a terrible cost? Or that day at Calvary where true freedom was purchased for an even more terrible cost?
Can't they just SEE.
Am I wrong to wish that?
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Wrong? No. Naive? Maybe. It is a sad state of affairs, no doubt. It troubles me that the bar keeps moving. Like the tide coming in, we can do nothing to stop it. What once was considered evil, is now vogue. What once was considered socialism and an infringement on our rights, is now considered a right which must be implemented by the government.
ReplyDeleteI look at the changes that are happening around me (such as the just passed take over of our healthcare system) and marvel that the people do not see that the Emperor does not have any clothes on.
I feel like we are living the 21st Century version of the article you recently sent on the Austrian lady in the 30's.
Yet, despite all this, we have to resist despair. Elisha, after God used him to spectacularly defeat the prophets of Baal, fell into a funk to the point that he wanted to die. Jezabel promised to kill him, the world was "not going to put up with this religious fanatic". Yet, God was there with him. God preserved a remnant. God wanted Elisha to act, even though he felt that it was hopeless and the world around him was going to hell in a hand-basket.
The more things change....the more they stay the same....