Off The Editor’s Desk – 8-29-2019
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What should we teach our young generation?
What should we teach our young people? Should we guide them to work hard and be successful and take care of themselves and theirs, or should they be lead into being a dependent, dependent on the government for their very existences?
We need to teach the younger generation that if they take care of their needs they will also be able to help others in need.
What brought this to mind was a story in Sunday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visiting the Minnesota State Fair Saturday.
Sanders appeared at the Minnesota Public Radio building where host Tom Crann had planned a casual question and answer session, according to the article.
“But the feisty senator often co-opted the interview, standing and stumping for his top issues, climate change, free college tuition and expanded Medicare,” according to the article.
Sanders was asked about what would happen to the thousands of people in Minnesota currently employed in the health insurance business if that industry were eliminate.
Sanders answered, “When we move to a Medicare for all, will there be dislocation? There will be. But we provide a period of time to make sure that all workers who might see their jobs go, will get jobs in a new and growing health care system.”
Here is what will happen: if Sanders is proposing to employ people currently employed in the health insurance business and put them on the federal payroll, there will be no cost saving and with the federal government doing the paying, will drive our cost of the Medicare program to new heights. And, of course when the government is doing the business, there is no choice on our part, and we must take what is offered.
If past records of the federal government spending money is any guide at all, it seems that they need to spend a dollar to get fifty cents’ worth of benefits.
I wonder how come a person like Senator Sanders has to call the president names. He could just explain how his belief is different than his opponent’s. But he labeled President Trump as a liar, racist, sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a religious bigot.
Would not all be better if we praised our opponent instead of calling them a name? It would make for a better working condition and things might get done to address the items of concern of the people of America.
Sanders’ poll numbers have been dropping since Joe Biden entered the race. The last poll put him at around ten percent behind Biden and Warren.
I would like to quote a couple famous people that left an impression on me.
“ A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
“The job facing American voters in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on awareness rather than one of reaction based on unknown fear.” – Aberjhani, An American born author, historian, columnist and editor
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton