Greatest resource
I heard something the other day that got me thinking. What is a country's greatest wealth, its greatest natural resource?
Germany has announced that by the year 2050, it will be a Muslim country, Muslims having been imported to do jobs that there are no German people to do.
Muslims do not use artificial birth control, surgical sterilization is unknown, they accept all children that God sends them and abortion is never considered.
What was the goal of the German people when they chose the artificial birth control/legal abortion path to keep from having children? Was it, what is actually happening, self-annihilation? Was that their goal, to become extinct?
In America, we are barely maintaining a population replacement level of 2.1 percent, primarily due to the Hispanic immigrants in our nation.
Why are we running so fast to try and catch up with Europe in unhealthy ways? Do we really want to cease to exist as a nation, to self-destruct?
I pray that we return to the truth that any country's greatest wealth, its greatest natural resource is its children, before it's to late.
Barbara S. Coger
Gaylord
So much at stake
A Nov. 16 story reveals a "mystery group" spending lots of money opposing a government-run health care choice (not a mandate!) -- a choice that has a good chance of driving the overhead of our health care costs down without hurting workers delivering expert care.
According to Dr. Sidney Wolfe in the Public Citizen Health Research Group Health Letter, the health insurance industry charges $400 billion a year in excessive administrative costs. Drug companies alone racked up $50 billion in profits just last year.
So much is at stake for the greedy CEOs in top management. Why should they care that every day, 50 uninsured die from lack of coverage, totalling 18,000 deaths a year?
Who cares about the public's interests?
Wake up, Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs fans. You and your loved ones may go down the drain along with the rest of the unfortunates without sufficient health coverage in times of chronic or crisis health needs.
Bonnie Spanier
Traverse City
