1963

So beginith the rant:

As I drove to work today I was listening to a local talk radio show out of Panama City. This show has a local conservative guy who rants about limited government and often gets local officials to do interviews and allow people to ask them candid questions.
If you have met me more than 5 min you will know that I detest socialized anything (from welfare to political correctness) I see any form of it as a direct violation of my rights. And much like anyone else with a functioning frontal lobe I dislike and distrust the idea of "universal health care".
Back on task this morning as I turned on the car the normal guy wasn't speaking, no it was a voice recorded talking about the passing of a bill for a government funded medical program and how it is a foot in the door tactic of socialism. The voice took me a minute to recognize (because of my age) but I quickly gathered it was Ronald Reagan. The facts and observations he was making about the path of socialism that would be opened with even the slightest addition to the medicare program were spot on.
As this short speech was trickling through my speakers I was shocked that during his presidency that our congress tried to pull the same stunt, and that it took someone with logic to speak in front of the nation to explain how we as a country are not, by our founders design, destined to be ruled by our government.
This speech was dead on. The names of the bills were different but the facts were still the same. The flaws and questions still the same: How do we pay? How do we avoid abuse? What would stop it from expanding? Where does the government get the right?
I sat and listened to the last of the speech in the parking lot actually amazed at how history repeats itself. But then the real shock came. At the of the recorded speech the host of the show said that was Mr. Reagan in a speech delivered in 1963.
Kind of puts a whole new perspective on the people who have been ranting about how people in government have been trying to socialize our country for years, and will not stop. They are just waiting for we the people to get dumb enough to let it happen.

So endith the rant: