So this is progress[ivisim]?

Two articles in the Pilot on August 9, 2010 illustrate how out of touch and out of control our current government is. "Optometrists say state’s Medicaid cuts lack vision” and asserts a new budget measure “barring them from Medicaid reimbursements limits eye-care access for the poor, harms their practices, and generally is an affront to the profession.” This dire state of affairs is attributable by this interest group to Governor McDonnell’s actions to balance the state budget. This page 1 story is followed by a page 5 story "Lackluster effort to combat Medicare fraud examined,” which discloses that out of $835 million in questionable Medicare payments, the government has only been able to recover $55 million. These two stories make the point: we have created a statist mentality that communicates everyone is entitled, enabled it with an incompetent government, and raised a generation of reporters who cannot draw a direct connection between the two.


Personally, I'm tired of funding out of control,inefficient, ineffective government that has lost any congruence with the intent of our founding documents. It's not government's job to meet our individual moral obligation to provide goods and services to the poor -  we should meet that directly, through our churches, our communities, and not-for-profit organizations.   The government's job is to protect our individual liberty not redistribute our wealth.  It is our responsibility to use our secured liberty in a morally responsible way to create wealth  and use that wealth to advance our personal and collective interests as a society.