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[FONT=Palatino,][SIZE=+1]Exclusive: Joseph Farah cringes at horror story
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[SIZE=-1]Posted: February 19, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
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[FONT=Palatino,]By Joseph Farah
There's a bold new political and cultural push on in America to make everyone dependent on government.
You don't need guns to defend yourself and your family, just call 911.
You don't need to prepare for disasters, just call 911.
You don't need to worry about paying for health care yourself, just call 911.
There isn't anything government can't do for you.
That's what we're being told.
We're all going to live in brand new utopian world, according to the swirling rhetoric of Barack Obama and the shrill demands of Hillary Clinton. We'll just tax the rich, then the rest of us will be on Easy Street. All our basic needs will be met. We'll live in a just and fair society.
It's amazing so many people actually believe this stuff especially after social experiments like this have failed miserably over the last century resulting in massive suffering and deaths numbered in the hundreds of millions.
But believe they do.
I'm not sure there's any way to reason with people who are intellectually dysfunctional whose own greed and envy motivate them to resemble the French revolutionaries far more than our own American revolutionaries.
Having said that, let's try a little shock treatment.
While you read the rest of this column, please listen to this audio of a 911 call placed by Brenda Orr of Doylestown, Penn., last month when the multiple sclerosis victim's bed became engulfed in fire.
Remember, Brenda didn't have a choice about relying on government. You still do.
Panicked by the flames, she did what Americans have become conditioned to do in any emergency call 911.
Even though 10 dispatchers and four supervisors were on duty and no other calls were coming into the emergency center, a county government operation, no one answered the call for 28 seconds.
Then Brenda was immediately put on hold despite her pleas.
Another 26 seconds passed before a second dispatcher put down his coffee and picked up the phone.
You can hear the torment and frustration in Brenda's incredulous voice as she speaks her final words about 30 seconds later.
While that phone was ringing six times, there were 10 people on duty capable of answering it. They all failed to do so. Their water-cooler chit-chat or their Internet surfing was more important to them.
None of the dispatchers or their bosses were fired. That's the way government protects its own. This is the reason people love government jobs. Government employees are really the only ones protected by government.
This horror story is a metaphor for dependency on government whether it is for your medical care, whether it is for your family's safety or whether it is for the way you renew your driver's license.
The reason no one was seriously disciplined in the emergency center is that this kind of service is not unusual not in Doylestown or anywhere else across America, especially in major urban centers. You've probably experienced something similar hopefully while in less dire circumstances than Brenda Orr.
Dependency on government is the opposite of freedom and responsibility. In the long term, it means tyranny and slavery. It inevitably slides into massive death tolls, as it did under Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, et al.
I didn't know Brenda Orr. But I hope and pray her death is not in vain. I don't just mean that the people of Doylestown, Penn., will get better emergency service in the future. I mean I hope her story wakes up Americans to the reality of what dependency on government really means.
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suffering and death
[FONT=Palatino,][SIZE=+1]Exclusive: Joseph Farah cringes at horror story
resulting from rampant reliance on government[/SIZE][/FONT]
[SIZE=-1]Posted: February 19, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
[/SIZE]
[FONT=Palatino,]By Joseph Farah
There's a bold new political and cultural push on in America to make everyone dependent on government.
You don't need guns to defend yourself and your family, just call 911.
You don't need to prepare for disasters, just call 911.
You don't need to worry about paying for health care yourself, just call 911.
There isn't anything government can't do for you.
That's what we're being told.
We're all going to live in brand new utopian world, according to the swirling rhetoric of Barack Obama and the shrill demands of Hillary Clinton. We'll just tax the rich, then the rest of us will be on Easy Street. All our basic needs will be met. We'll live in a just and fair society.
It's amazing so many people actually believe this stuff especially after social experiments like this have failed miserably over the last century resulting in massive suffering and deaths numbered in the hundreds of millions.
But believe they do.
I'm not sure there's any way to reason with people who are intellectually dysfunctional whose own greed and envy motivate them to resemble the French revolutionaries far more than our own American revolutionaries.
Having said that, let's try a little shock treatment.
While you read the rest of this column, please listen to this audio of a 911 call placed by Brenda Orr of Doylestown, Penn., last month when the multiple sclerosis victim's bed became engulfed in fire.
Remember, Brenda didn't have a choice about relying on government. You still do.
Panicked by the flames, she did what Americans have become conditioned to do in any emergency call 911.
Even though 10 dispatchers and four supervisors were on duty and no other calls were coming into the emergency center, a county government operation, no one answered the call for 28 seconds.
Then Brenda was immediately put on hold despite her pleas.
Another 26 seconds passed before a second dispatcher put down his coffee and picked up the phone.
You can hear the torment and frustration in Brenda's incredulous voice as she speaks her final words about 30 seconds later.
While that phone was ringing six times, there were 10 people on duty capable of answering it. They all failed to do so. Their water-cooler chit-chat or their Internet surfing was more important to them.
None of the dispatchers or their bosses were fired. That's the way government protects its own. This is the reason people love government jobs. Government employees are really the only ones protected by government.
This horror story is a metaphor for dependency on government whether it is for your medical care, whether it is for your family's safety or whether it is for the way you renew your driver's license.
The reason no one was seriously disciplined in the emergency center is that this kind of service is not unusual not in Doylestown or anywhere else across America, especially in major urban centers. You've probably experienced something similar hopefully while in less dire circumstances than Brenda Orr.
Dependency on government is the opposite of freedom and responsibility. In the long term, it means tyranny and slavery. It inevitably slides into massive death tolls, as it did under Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, et al.
I didn't know Brenda Orr. But I hope and pray her death is not in vain. I don't just mean that the people of Doylestown, Penn., will get better emergency service in the future. I mean I hope her story wakes up Americans to the reality of what dependency on government really means.
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