After reading Stephen Sloane”s extensive column in the Nov. 21 Record-Bee concerning the Affordable Health Care Act it is clear that he is an advocate for socialized medicine in the name of economic fairness.
In this lifetime we only have one chance to get it right for all of eternity. Socialized medicine is not what we need. Socialism is a destructive force and is not part of God”s plan. It was never God”s purpose that there would be no poverty. He never intended for there to be financial equality across the social spectrum.
It”s only natural for us to want good health and to be free from life”s cares and anxieties. We want our life to be less difficult but this is not usually God”s way. Instead, it is through adversity that the creator gives us the opportunity to build character.
God knows our end from the beginning and uses this foreknowledge on our behalf. He determines exactly how much hardship we can take as he perfects our character. He does not go beyond the correction we need.
So, to sum it up, Stephen Sloane thinks that economic fairness is a worthy goal whereas our creator doesn”t see it that way at all. As far as character development is concerned the worst thing that could happen to the human race from God”s eternal point of view would be for all of the poor to suddenly become rich through no effort of their own.
Bill Kettenhofen
Kelseyville
