Health Care Reform

Never in the history of our country have we heard the phrase "health care reform" More than in the past year. It seems to be the hot button issue of the day. Now I am not generally a real political pastor I have my views and will share them on occasion, but I feel that yesterday something very elementary to our way of life was taken from us part of our freedom was taken with this vote yesterday. Depending upon which source you listen to anywhere from 47% to 57% of Americans disapproved of this bill they wanted nothing to do with government regulated health care. But despite the overwhelming numbers of citizens who did not want this bill passed into law, our lawmakers took it upon themselves to go against the will of the people and make this piece of legislation law regardless of how the people they are supposed to be "serving" felt. At his point it is almost like they are saying "you do not know what you need we do". I totally and whole heartedly DISAGREE! We the taxpayers pay their salaries, they work for us, if the overwhelming majority of "we the people" were against this legislation it should have never progressed to this point. The problem is not Democrat or Republican which is what many would lead you to believe, it is that on both sides of the aisle there is a fundamental disconnect from the American people, they either do not know what we want or they do not care, and for those who will shout "but it is free health care" I will remind you that nothing is free all of this "free" health care will cost somebody and that somebody is you and I the American taxpayer, this is really nothing more than socialistic redistribution, trying to put everyone on the same plain and my friends that is just a physical impossibility, there will always be the rich and there will always be the poor, there will always be the more fortunate and the less fortunate this is an unavoidable fact of life. But in the land of the "free" we are supposed to be able to make our own decisions concerning the things that affect our lives, and when that ability begins to be encroached upon our most basic liberties are at risk. I pray that our nation remains "...a government by the people and for the people"

Resting in Jesus,
Pastor Steele