Crisis of Culture

by Dave Blount | March 16, 2010 1:10 pm

As the lunatic wing of the Democrat Party prepares for the great leap into socialism by ramming through a federal healthcare entitlement certain to lead to national bankruptcy, now might be a good time to reprint highlights from a letter[1] that Dr. Roger Starner Jones wrote to the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger:

During my last night’s shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B; tune for a ring tone.

Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.

She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. And our President expects me to pay for this woman’s health care?

Our nation’s health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture — a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.

A culture that thinks I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me.

There it is in a nutshell: the depraved infantilism of liberalism, which demands that those who take responsibility become slaves to those who do not.

No culture rotted through with this mentality can survive indefinitely. Our healthcare system is only the beginning of what we stand to lose.

On a tip from Oiao. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[2].

Endnotes:
  1. a letter: http://spotlight.vitals.com/2009/10/dr-roger-starner-jones-muses-crisis-culture/
  2. Moonbattery: http://www.moonbattery.com/

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