by Steve Ray on June 4, 2012
An American living in Milan Italy wrote today asking for my assistance and of Catholic who will help pray for a worthy workman in the field.
“I am writing to you because a friend of mine in my parish (the Duomo of Monza), Prof. Mario Palmaro, one of Italy’s most active lay Catholic apologists (especially against secular relativism), was just diagnosed with an unexpected and massive colon tumor that has spread to his liver.
“He apparently does not have much hope of recovery, even though chemotherapy was started this week. Mario is 44 years old, and has a wife and four wonderful children who depend on him. It is a truly dramatic situation as his wife does not work- she has dedicated her life to caring for the children and is active in Catholic outreach and catechesis efforts here in the Milan Archdiocese.”
Please pray for Professor Mario Palmaro!
by Steve Ray on June 4, 2012
The folks who are getting the FREE STUFF don’t like the folks who are paying for the FREE STUFF, because the folks who are paying for the FREE STUFF can no longer afford to pay for both the FREE STUFF and their own stuff.
And, the folks who are paying for the FREE STUFF want the FREE STUFF to stop.
And the folks who are getting the FREE STUFF want even more FREE STUFF on top of the FREE STUFF they are already getting!
Now… the people who are forcing the people who pay for the FREE STUFF have told the people who are RECEIVING the FREE STUFF that the people who are PAYING for the FREE STUFF are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So… the people who are GETTING the FREE STUFF have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the FREE STUFF by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their FREE STUFF and giving them the FREE STUFF in the first place.
We have let the FREE STUFF giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting FREE STUFF than paying for the FREE STUFF.
All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason?
The voters figured out they could vote themselves FREE STUFF from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them FREE STUFF from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 236 years ago. The number of people now getting FREE STUFF outnumbers the people paying for the FREE STUFF.
We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells huge problems for the United States as we know it.
by Steve Ray on June 2, 2012
Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid”! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman’s health care? I contend that our nation’s “health care crisis” is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture”, a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.
Once you fix this “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully, STARNER JONES, MD
