Disregarding today’s politicians, what value will future Americans place on human life? How will that value affect the physical safety and financial well-being of the old, the sick, the handicapped—those unwanted, nonproductive, and financial burdens.
"Man is only man at the surface. Remove his skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery."____ French Poet, Paul Valery
In one sentence, Paul Valery expresses the thinking of today's secular leaders, opinion molders, and bureaucrats. Fascist Germany and Communist Russia also considered their citizens machinery. Their secular governments terminated the unwanted, the nonproductive, the financial burdens. Supporters of Hitler’s mercy program justified mercy killing on humanistic grounds. The real reason, economic and political correctness.
A growing percentage of America's population is approaching retirement age. With the graying of America, Social Security payments and health care costs claim more and more tax dollars. Now add increasing cost to care for those younger Americans suffering the consequences of drug addiction, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases—including the newborn. Their mental or physical impairments the result of their mother's drug addiction or sexually transmitted disease. Every year thousands of these children are discarded, left in the maternity ward to be cared for at public expense. A heartbreaking problem legalizing drugs will escalate.
Future annual cost to care for the unwanted or nonproductive financial burdens could amount to trillions of taxpayer dollars. Who will pay? Will younger productive members of society be willing to maintain the living standard of an increasing older generation? Will young families sacrifice their own financial well-being to support the aged, the drug impaired, the mentally and physically handicapped?
In the future, what value human life? Is the only answer mercy killing—suicide, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia? Will the only value the aged, the destitute, and the handicapped have is for harvested body parts? Who will decide? How will we meet these needs?
We have two choices. The first may require self-sacrifice. We can meet the cost to care for the growing number of America's afflicted, based on the God given value of human life and the Biblical truth of "My God shall supply all my needs..." The second choice—secular materialism—will further cheapen the value of life and all the evil consequences that go with it: legalized murder, death undertaken for economic and political reasons. The second choice is the direction today’s advocates of abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and government managed healthcare are taking us.
Which choice? Which America will we leave for future generations? It is up to you.
Be Informed Be Involved _________ Michael E. Odell
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About Me
- Michael E. Odell
- Michael E. Odell, a political polemicist with a working background in sales, finances, politics, writing, broadcasting, and teaching small business classes on several college campuses. He has authored several books including Gold A Layman’s Investment Manual, Business Plans for Lemonade Stands, and Marketing Plans for Lemonade Stands—and an occasional poem for his own pleasure. He was first elected to the State House of Representatives Spokane Valley’s 4th District in 1962 and ran for Congress in 1968. Fifty years an outspoken advocate of less government and more individual responsibility.