Welcome to socialized medicine.
Medicare for all = Medical care for none.
Reagan had it right:
A Time for Choosing
Ronald Reagan
October 27, 1964
I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this. I have been talking on this
subject for ten years, obviously under the administration of both parties. I mention this only because
it seems impossible to legitimately debate the issues of the day without being subjected to
name-calling and the application of labels. Those who deplore use of the terms “pink” and “leftist”
are themselves guilty of branding all who oppose their liberalism as right wing extremists. How
long can we afford the luxury of this family fight when we are at war with the most dangerous
enemy ever known to man?
If we lose that war, and in so doing lose our freedom, it has been said history will record with the
greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.
The guns are silent in this war but frontiers fall while those who should be warriors prefer neutrality.
Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee. He was a businessman
who had escaped from Castro. In the midst of his tale of horrible experiences, one of my friends
turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” The Cuban stopped and said,
“How lucky you are? I had some place to escape to.” And in that sentence he told the entire story.
If freedom is lost here there is no place to escape to.
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that
information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout
for your community? Realize that the doctor’s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We
can’t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion
of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. If some among you fear taking
a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last.
Appeasement or Courage? The spectre our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face is that their
policy of accommodation is appeasement, and appeasement does not give you a choice between
peace and war, only between fight and surrender. We are told that the problem is too complex for
a simple answer. They are wrong. There is no easy answer, but there is a simple answer. We must
have the courage to do what we know is morally right, and this policy of accommodation asks us
to accept the greatest possible immorality. We are being asked to buy our safety from the threat of
“the bomb” by selling into permanent slavery our fellow human beings enslaved behind the Iron
Curtain, to tell them to give up their hope of freedom because we are ready to make a deal with
their slave masters.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We can preserve for our children this, the last best hope
of man on earth, or we can sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment
here. We did all that could be done.
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