Thoughts At The Close

Three news items caught my eye today that are reflective of 2007. The one that jumped out at me was that a Japanese woman died after being turned away from 30 hospitals. The jist of the story is that the hospitals were all full and did not have room to treat her. What you are seeing is a glimpse of what will happen when the government takes over health care. Once we are blessed with health care for all, we will be blessed with health care as a rationed commodity. Hopefully, free enterprise will be an option or it will create a black market for emergency treatment and surgery.

The second story concerns the murder of former Pakistan Prime Minister Bhutto. It is a sad time when someone is assassinated and a nation is grieving for the loss of this leader but... If memory serves, she was under house arrest just a few weeks ago. The whole world was agog that she was being kept from attending anti-government rallies. Maybe Musharraf might have known a little more than he was letting on and was trying to save her life. Now we have Al Qaida taking responsibility for the murder. Could it be that she was a woman?

The last story is that the Iraq war is no longer center stage in American's thoughts. Wow, could it be that the liberal media has finally quit trying to hammer the "we are losing the war strategy"? Too much good news coming out of Iraq for the media to cover it up. Of course they picked the ecomony as the biggest issue for Americans. They cited the housing crisis as the big problem. When you buy too much house and cannot make the payments, it is your issue, not Americas. Can you say greed boys and girls?

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Cobb