Great Comments!
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me." Phillippians 4:13.
At 10:00 PM 3/5/2014, you wrote:
>Businesses are cutting hours because they want to stay in
>business. They can't afford to keep people working a 40 hour week
>and pay the rising premiums required by the new "affordable health
>care plan". Is a businessman greedy if he puts in 60 or 80 hours
>weekly working to build up a business to give it to his
>children. Or to profit there from. In the parable told by Jesus
>himself where in the business man hired men to work for him in the
>morning and paid them a penny, and hired another group to work for
>him late in the afternoon, paying them the same amount he did what
>he chose regarding his payments. When asked by those who worked
>longer for him why he chose to pay the last the same amount as the
>first, he told them just that. That it was his business, and if he
>wanted to pay the last people the same amount as he paid the first
>workers, it wasn't their concern. A business is, or should be, the
>owners, to do with as he chooses. If he can't afford to have his
>workers work for 40 hours because of government constraints. The
>workers ought to vote out that government who attempts to constrain
>businesses. We know the fault doesn't lie with the businessmen or
>the insurance companies, because president Obama the legislative and
>judicial branches of the government exempt themselves from this
>affordable care program. I ask you, if the program were so fine a
>one, wouldn't it make sense for these servants of the people to jump
>at the chance to join up. Rather than perhaps being forced by the
>possibility of not being reelected to do so? The truth is we had
>the finest health care in the world. We know this by the various
>dignitaries who come to our shores to get health care from medical
>doctors. Who now have to pay back enormous loans to their fine
>medical schools. How can they do this, while at the same time
>supporting their own children. Particularly in an age when it is
>said we parents ought to at least foot part of their college
>tuition. How many fine medical doctors will we be able to support
>in future because of the implementation of this new disaster. One
>of the reasons many of our doctors are foreign is because Americans
>can't afford to be medically educated here. If the government
>rations what they can charge for services, how might this effect
>future medical school enrolments? In most socialist countries such
>as Great Britain, and Canada, where there are long waiting lists to
>be seen for procedures which are attended to in a relatively short
>time here in this country have coexisting private care programs for
>their citizens. Those who can afford it preferred to benefit
>themselves of the private care offered in those countries.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bev" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 5:43 PM
>Subject: Re: Obama Care and Planned Parenthood
>
>
>>Is it the government's fault, or the fault of the greedy insurance
>>companies that the insurance rates have sky rocketed? Is it the
>>government's fault that employers have chosen to cut employees'
>>hours, because they now have to offer benefits if employees work a
>>certain amount of hours? Is it really our government who is
>>screwing us all, or, wait, could it be our own greedy business
>>people who don't give a darn? I'm scared that people are always
>>pointing the finger at the government, when in fact, if you really
>>sit down and think things through, it's our country's own business
>>people who are screwing their employees. It's the insurance
>>companies who want to raise rates, because now they are being
>>forced to offer better coverage.
>>Our government is a far cry from perfect, but I am getting sick of
>>hearing Christians, of all people, bad mouth our government and
>>fear monger about our government, when in fact, we still have one
>>of the best run countries on this earth!
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