tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post7472257508192592370..comments2024-03-27T05:14:34.288-04:00Comments on Medinnovation And Health Reform: Partisanship by the Numbers - Estimates of the Size of the Washington Taxpayer MarchRichard L. Reece, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03446550629857699574noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076839327674215825.post-71876369095643959162009-09-14T18:01:07.395-04:002009-09-14T18:01:07.395-04:00Thank you for contacting me and giving me a link t...Thank you for contacting me and giving me a link to your blog. I have read your profile and the blog post that you linked to in the email you sent me. I believe it it is the most thoughtful post on Obama's health care speech I've yet read. <br /><br />To respond to your post about what Democrats believe about Saturday's Tea Party in Washington DC; I believe there is an elitist attitude at the center of the Democrat's thinking. It stems from the leftist/socialist attitude that only a small fraction of the people are smart enough to govern the unwashed majority. This is the heart of tyranny and it pervades not only at the top of the Democrat party but it also comes from elitist intelligentsia that instructs our youth on what to think and not how to think in our schools and higher learning institutions. <br /><br />I am only a person of modest formal education but have served in the military and have been politically active for many years. I grew up in the area where freedom was born and nurtured. I believe I am well versed in the thoughts and actions of our founding fathers having seen and lived near the battlefields of the War of Independence and have grown up seeing and understanding the words the founders used to describe their vision for the new nation. <br /><br />I understand the writings of the Federalist Papers and have read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence many times. <br /><br />Most of the elitists you refer to would be hard pressed to describe what the Federalist Papers were about and why they were written. I served during the Cold War and have seen the Hammer and Sickle of tyranny but it seems that the current state of the Democrat party and it's leadership are hellbent on forgetting the lessons learned from that failed ideology.<br /><br />The whole idea of the government takeover of health care did not just begin with the election of Barack Obama. The idea was hatched many years ago by people that have a different outlook for America than those we saw in Washington DC on Saturday. Those people we saw in Washington are me and people like me that want the Federal government to back out of our lives and provide only those things that they are authorized in the Constitution. The greatness of this nation did not come as result of our government, it came from the greatness of freedom that God has bestowed upon us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com