The Bishop's Weekly Column from the Parish Bulletin

OUR LADY OF FATIMA

CATHOLIC CHURCH

The "Health care Hoax"...
...and the "undisclosed location"

August 19th, 2006

One "hoax" after another...

The battle over health care has raged all across the United States these past few weeks. Indeed the push for "universal health care" has always been a pet project of the left. In my country, the United Kingdom, it was the left under Clement Atlee, who introduced the National Health Service, just after the Second World War. Socialized medicine (as it is called here) has been the political "hot potato" that everyone talks about, but nothing is ever done to implement it - and with good reason - it is simply "unsustainable" !

However, despite the raucous gatherings, the "administration" has continued to encourage attendees to "rat" on their fellow "citizens" by reporting dissenters to the officials at GCHQ. With one lady declaring herself to be a 4 year "health care official" and that she welcomed the "Surgeon General's" healthcare plan, it was later discovered that she had been "in the back pocket" of the "administration" all along as a "delegate". We can depend upon the "media-savvy" to ferret out the false brethren and expose their falsehoods. Sometimes, those caught want back in (because the "admin" needs them on the inside doing their undercover work) - they can keep on dreaming ! As the old adage puts it: "You can run but you can't hide !"

That adage reminds me of another "political" cover-up after the 9-11 (8-6) caper: the (Vice)-"President" was, (so we were told), holed up in an "undisclosed location", it became the butt of political jokes on the late night talk shows on TV and their radio counterparts during the day, especially when it was revealed that the "undisclosed location" was a bunker under his own home !

"Health care" plans have ostensibly been shelved for now, but those in the know, know much more than they write... (they tried it once before, they're trying it now - and, for sure, a third attempt will be made at some uncertain point in the future). For my part, I just keep whistling "Regrets, I've had a few, but, then again, too few to mention" !

+TF