Racist or Scared?

As we watched the Feedom Works demonstration in Washington DC this past week it became the backdrop for the tears in the national fabric. They were stirred up by leadership to accept an enslaving agenda, i.e. not allow those who are without have no chance to improve their lot. They use fear mongering techniques that have no basis in reality.

The device used is to make government the boogy man and at times, the black President himself. So many have put words into Jimmy Carter's mouth, a critic of some of the marchers. He only identified some of these protesters as racist. The past president pointed out that among those who are using personal ad hominems against the present president, a large portion are racially based. He purposely left out those who had an ax to grind on their taxes or having government involved in health care. In this light President Carter is right on.

In the group that consider their hero, Joseph Wilson, Rep from S. Carolina, also admire his support for waving the Confederate flag over that state's Statehouse. He has called the Confederacy an "honorable history." If this isn't racist, what is? If when directly asked if he was racist, he stated he wasn't because he lives closeby to blacks. Huh?

A universal paid for national health plan helps individuals, business, government, and our collective psyche, and our pocket book. Anything less is shooting yourself in the foot and stretching the divide in an unhelathy way of wealth distribution. Yes even captialism must ensure that a significant number of the population has a livable income. Without it we come to a ignoble collapse of our way of life.