additional debate over health care reform

[emayer]

Guys,

This like many of the other debates here are interesting and worthwhile, but there is no room for personal attacks.  By the same token, just because some of us may disagree with a particular administration's actions should not define us as radicals of either stripe.  Most of us truly care about the well-being of this country though we may differ as to how to achieve this.

As someone whose family recently immigrated to the US from a "Social-Democracy" I can state that there are benefits and pitfalls of both systems of governance.  At present it seems that the nation is drifting toward a Euro-centric model.  Thus, we will ultimately loose our distinction amongst our peers as a nation of personal freedom and responsibility as we drift toward a state of complacency, uniformity, and mediocrity.  If this is the will of our Country so be it, but this differs from our Founder's intent and that which has been defended all these centuries.  Remember, it was those fundamentals that enabled this fledgling country to evolve into a dominant economic and entrepreneurial superpower to begin with.

I believe in large part, it is this philosophical difference of opinion with the administration which has fostered the Tea Party etc.  I don't know the demographics of that group but they seem to comprise plenty of those from "The Greatest Generation."  They ought to know full well the cost of our freedoms, perhaps it is worth listening a bit.