Article by Steve Karp, M.D. in "The American Thinker":
What’s
the word for how to kill a country? Countrycide? Is it preferable for
it to be done financially, such as torching the economy, then printing
up money and causing massive debt requiring revaluation of the currency?
Or perhaps by the taking of liberty via shredding the constitutional
features of limited government, checks and balances, and personal
rights? How about the purposeful flooding of the country, legally and
illegally, with people who are unassimilable, disease-ridden, desire all
kinds of social services, or just prefer their own way of life but in a
different setting? For those whose mantra is “How do I hate thee, let
me count the ways,” all at once will do.
Despite
or because of the two party system, this country has survived many ups
and downs. In just the past 55 years consider the Democratic Great
Society, Immigration Act of 1965 and Obamacare or the Republican FISA
courts, Patriot Act and now the shutdown of the strongest economy ever.
With the effects these policies had and will have on society it seems
fair to view these two parties as different sides of the same pancake.
So
as we watch government in action, all in the name of protecting us from
a viral intruder, one wonders what, if any lessons our rulers will
learn once the current “crisis” passes. Will any of the following be
addressed?
Was
it really a good idea to have so many business off-shore their
production to China thereby allowing for questionable safety and
availability of goods? What of the lost manufacturing jobs here?
Should business regulations that stifled domestic production and
employment be revisited? Or should we resign ourselves to the continued
wares offered at ChinaMart?
What
sort of punishment is in order for the Chinese secretiveness regarding
their virus and the impact this has had on the world’s health and
commerce?
Who
will be responsible for the increasing concentration of medical
services by hospitals through acquisition of physician practices,
employment of physicians and expansion of medical services beyond the
confines of the hospital? Now that it’s being rediscovered that
hospitals are needed for the care of acutely ill people, should
hospitals go back to their traditional role? What’s wrong with the sole
role being maintaining emergency rooms, operating rooms for surgery that
is complex or on patients too ill to have it performed in an ambulatory
care setting, and providing hospital beds for people too sick to be
cared for in other environments?
Perhaps
we wouldn’t be hearing of talk of too few ventilators and other medical
equipment if hospitals had those available for times of need rather
than spending our money bankrupting physician practices or building one
cancer center across the street from another hospital’s cancer center.
During
our current crisis, who was busy shorting the stock exchange?
Politicians obviously are insider traders. How does one otherwise become
a multimillionaire on their salary? But are others who shorted the
markets friends or relatives of those politicians? Should insider
trading laws be expanded? Should term limits of federal politicians
become the cry for the 28th Amendment?
When
the stock market goes through a correction right before one’s eyes,
should there be a lower tolerance to suspend trading, and not for half
an hour, but before we have a 1929 redo with people jumping out of
buildings?
How
many times is the American taxpayer expected to bail out industries,
whose shaky balance sheet is often due to prior government action? And
speaking of taxpayers, shouldn’t all Americans be expected to pay some
federal tax? Perhaps liberals will one day mature in their worldview
and learn to mouth “spread the burden” in place of “spread the wealth.
Was
it a mistake to allow mass immigration into the US without mass medical
screening, as was done when Ellis Island functioned? With 70% of
immigrants being part of family reunification, wasn’t it more humane to
have never broken up the family to begin with? Are we really getting
the best (at what?) or brightest (at what?). And what of the millions
of criminal aliens that reside among us who supposedly live in the
shadows, while at the same time presenting to medical offices with
multiple ID’s in different names? Is it time to consider a mass
repatriation?
Was
it wise to close facilities for the mentally ill leading to millions
living in the streets, subway tunnels and abandoned buildings, since
they are a reservoir for infectious diseases based upon their lack of
sanitation?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/lessons_learned_or_not.html