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‘Cause’ of health crisis is humans, not system
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Nov. 7, 2009 11:09 pm
There's another dastardly “nanny law” coming. The real intent of mandatory health insurance is to make everyone, including those who have taken good care of their own health with diet, avoiding fatty foods and avoiding dangerous sports, to pay for the careless scoffers who abused their health with over eating, obesity, drugs, careless and immoral lifestyle and/or got themselves banged up in dangerous sports.
We hear about the deer hazard. Maybe God would see it as a human machine speed hazard. Motor vehicles have came in only within the past 100 years and before that time no humans were zooming around at 70 plus mph in the dark in deadly machines. When they went by horse and buggy, the animals didn't crash into each other.
We never hear the deer tell their side of the problem. It's the humans who chase the deer out of their habitat and the deer aren't educated in traffic laws. Things would be different if the animals could vote and take legal action.
Herman Lenz
Sumner
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