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I am writing at a time when people have called for government intervention and government has responded to such calls for intervention. While government has a responsibility to the governed, our society as distanced itself from individual responsibility at a time of a great crisis. There are people who say that if there is no government oversight, the people will get richer at the expense of the less fortunate.

The United States of America was founded on the basis of limited government and individual responsibility. The people must not look to government as the source of their solution. The history of the world has been testimony to what has happened when the state takes over. Many times, individual responsibility and freedoms go out of the door and we are faced with slavery. I will deal with the health care aspect and the FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act].

One of the examples of how Government Oversight going amok has been in Cuba, Zimbabwe, North Korea, and the United States of America. Cuba, Zimbabwe, and North Korea have people who scrutinize the movements of their citizens in case of disloyalty and any example of public criticism is suppressed. The United States of America under the Republican/Democratic Leadership of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi have the FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act].

The Freedom of Choice Act enacts the opposite in which taxpayers are forced to pay for abortions, hospitals [as well as health care workers] are forced to participate in abortions, and parents can do nothing if their child wants an abortion. In other words, the Republican/Democratic Government of the United States of America will kill unborn babies just as they killed innocent Arabs and other nationalities.

According to Donny Ferguson of the Libertarian Party, when a government begins to provide health care, education, and child care; there is a recipe for disaster. The government looks at the people that it supposes to take care of as nothing more than a burden. Nancy Pelosi once told George Stephanopolous that "family planning reduces costs" without taking into account the individual.

Donny Ferguson also wrote in the Libertarian Party Blog about a 43 year old man who suffered from Down's Syndrome was hospitalized in the National Health Service System in Great Britain. The patient starved to death after 26 days because the Physicians in the National Health Service forgot that he had to be fed.

The result was that the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Report [which will be released] concluded that the Government Run Health Care System in Great Britain discriminates against people who are disabled. The Physicians who did nothing should have been responsible but they had their hands tied by a "nanny state" that wants to control everything in the name of "the village".

It is hoped that the people of the United States of America would one day learn that government oversight in health care leads to death while the Libertarian Solution is Pro Life.

Reference:

http://www.figh tfoca.com/

http://www.lp.org/

"P elosi: Reduce government spending by reducing the population" Ferguson, Donny; January 26, 2009

http://www.lp.org/blogs/do nny-ferguson/pelosi-reduce-gov ernment-spending-by-reducing-t he-population

"Report: Government-run hospitals fatally discriminate against the disabled" Ferguson, Donny: January 24, 2009

http://www.lp.org/blogs/do nny-ferguson/report-government -run-hospitals-fatally-discrim inate-against-the-disabled

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