Barbara J. Hamby

Read and Weep

Read and Weep

I did.

From last night’s Republican debate ...

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, the event’s moderator, posed the hypothetical question to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf Blitzer asked.
“Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.

Alan Grayson comments:
What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare plan. It’s sadism, pure and simple. It’s the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading—bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about—“the war of all against all.”

Barbara comments:

I was horrified when I watched the movie Caligula years ago. Since I’ve never been a good student of history, I have no idea if that story had any historical accuracy. It did make me wonder about the trends in our “civilization” that resemble trends in fallen “civilizations.”

Is this the world we want to leave for our children and grandchildren?

I hope I’ll see it changed before I leave it.

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