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Just don’t get sick

Tue., Aug. 4, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

Cathy McMorris Rodgers is right on the money when she mocks the “public option” for health care: people getting sick is their problem, not the government’s, and certainly not mine.

I grew up in a God-fearing, Republican household, where we kids learned that sharing was for weaklings, that the world was a dangerous place where people would take what they could from you if you turned your back even for a moment. That’s why all of us were always armed whenever we left the compound.

Did Jesus ever ask for help? Nope. Did he ever share, or give his goods away to the poor? I don’t think so. My advice to sick and poor people is just this: don’t get sick, and don’t ask me to pay a single dime for your health care.

Anthony Flinn

Spokane

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