Is That What You Think?

Sometimes a person can betray their true feelings by what they say.

Recently Rep. Rand Paul put out a budget deal that would reduce our national debt by some $6 trillion over the next ten years. Needless to say, not everyone's pet project or program was spared. But as I understand it Social Security went untouched and Medicare would be changed to a state block-grant system.

The reaction from the left? Seniors and children will die. Seriously. By some predictions, some 80,000 people would die under Rep. Paul's budget.

Is that what the left really think? That should this (relatively) fiscally conservative budget pass that the average American would shrug and let even one person die? Shame on them.

Father Jonathon Morris said it better than I can in a recent op-ed:

"It is fallacious logic to posit that seniors will not get meals if the federal government doesn’t send those meals to them. The federal government is not the only, and certainly not the best, caretaker of people.

In an imperfect society like our own, there is certainly a need for a government safety net for people who have no other way of getting quality, basic care. But the starting point of a federal safety net should be the support of families, neighbors, church and social groups, communities, and local governments (in that order), as they take care of their own."