Reagan Coffee Cup Speech Still Pertinent
I intended to leave politics out of this blog for the most part but with the whole health care debate going on it's hard to avoid completely.
I realize that this clip of Ronald Reagan speaking out against medicare has been going around and getting a lot of play lately. While it might sound cold hearted to suggest that the medicare system should be done away with that doesn't change the basic fact that it is true. All of the arguments against socialized medicine that Reagan touches on are still true today as well as the warnings he gave about the dangers of letting the government get this kind of power over us.
During his campaign in 1980 Reagan was criticized for his earlier opposition to medicare and social security both. He managed to deflect these questions and while in office didn't manage any sort of meaningful reform. By 1980 both of these programs had become political kryptonite and continue to be unassailable for the foreseeable future.
We need to take the opportunity that the current health debate has given to us and assuming that the total socialization our health care can be avoided we need to start talking about cutting all of the entitlement programs back. There needs to be a sane solution to deal with the people that the government has forced onto these programs. Sane and compassionate are not mutually exclusive there are answers if we can ever get to a point where we can ask the questions.
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Full transcript via Lonely Conservative.
Posted Sunday 07:49 PM