A Smokescreen of Human Compassion

Fear mongering is a foreboding term. It is a tactic used by everyone, from your parents to world powers. Fear mongering is when you use someone's fear of something as a means to a result. For years now, the left has accused conservatives of fear mongering when it comes to matters of national security. Hey, if a heightened wariness of strange, shifty-looking people with suspicious packages keeps a suicide bomber from killing a group of people, I say it's doing a pretty good job. There's nothing wrong with a little fear and there's equally nothing wrong with using that fear to your advantage. God gave animals fear so they would know when to run from a predator, fear is good. What's wrong is when you abuse a different emotion: compassion.

The debate over health care has seen its supporters take to the mat with a disturbing tactic, using human misfortune as a bargaining chip. Congress and the President hide their socialistic agendas behind stories of cancer patients who can't pay for treatments and keep their home. The liberals put on a sad face as the camera chronicles the woes of sick children and people with life-threatening illnesses who just can't get the care they need because of a lack of insurance or the cost of said insurance. Instead of facing the real problems in health care, they hope you'll fall for this pity-party sleight of hand and let them do with health care what they please. And what they please will do nothing to stem the woes of these sick people. If anything, it will make matters much, much worse.

I've covered the issue of health care before, so I won't rehash what I've already said. I will only say this: if someone uses the misfortune of others as a means to manipulate opinion, what kind of person are they? If they hide behind a smoke screen of sick people, hoping you will somehow cave to their wishes, can you really trust them? The simple fact is, the horror stories of socialized medicine far outweigh those of what we have now in this country. And if you think sad stories won't occur if the Democrats get their way, think again. Though it's sad to say, life and death on this earth comes down to one thing: money. And having the government 'pay' your health care costs only means that some other poor American is footing your bill. When they run out of money, the burden will fall to someone else and eventually on you. Obamacare, though it sounds like rainbows and unicorns is the same old hell with the thermostat turned up 100 degrees. If that scares you, good. You can say I'm fear mongering, but you should be afraid.