Letter to The Editor
May 5, 2021
Dear Editor,
I am not sure why someone connected with the Barry County Advertiser feels the need to use half a page of the paper, with more to come, attempting to damn an organization whose foundation is built on the very values of the majority of the voters in this area, but she certainly spent a great deal of time looking into this organization.
I also find it odd that she has invoked the boogey men of the left, the Koch brothers, as people who have founded a “charity” for the wealthy. A gross misrepresentation of the organization in the first place. While Phaneuf has done a great deal of research on the organization, she has chosen to infer intent that does not exist.
Apparently, she is all in on expanding Medicaid though the cost would be more than the state can bear. As many do, she fails to grasp that making a vast number of people eligible for “free” medical insurance is not the same as having health care actually available. I have heard it said that the state can afford it because the federal government covers a significant amount of the cost. That is ignoring the fact that the government, neither the state nor the federal, has money that they do not first take from the citizens.
As I read the comment that the goal of Americans for Prosperity is to ensure a free market economy, with free market health care, as if that were a bad thing, I am horrified. We have a person advocating for socialism right here in our hometown paper.
This country was founded on the principle of capitalism and free markets, with the founders creating a constitution that limited the government, not the people. Ms Phaneuf is specifically asking for the government to make her decisions for her. She states that it is a burden to make medical decisions for oneself, rather than a freedom!
The continued criticism of this organization and its alignment with other “conservative think tanks,” is quite disturbing. We want limited government! We do not want the government making our decisions! We want true capitalism! That is freedom and that is how the founders of this country intended it to be!
As I read the words from her article, “they are united in their belief in the power of the individual,” and see her malign the idea of working together to achieve that goal, I am appalled. What in the world has happened to people that they abhor freedom?
I went to school right here in Cassville. I learned about how this country was founded and have a reverence for the sacrifices they made to ensure we were a free people, protected by the constraints of the Constitution they gave us, from tyrannical government. To see people advocating for the exact opposite of that is abhorrent to the senses.
As there is apparently more in the same vein coming in the future, I shall plan on further comment. However, as a side note, the Koch brothers are well known as libertarians, not conservatives and in the last few years donated more to democrats than republicans.
Kathy Casey
Cassville
Dear Editor,
I am not sure why someone connected with the Barry County Advertiser feels the need to use half a page of the paper, with more to come, attempting to damn an organization whose foundation is built on the very values of the majority of the voters in this area, but she certainly spent a great deal of time looking into this organization.
I also find it odd that she has invoked the boogey men of the left, the Koch brothers, as people who have founded a “charity” for the wealthy. A gross misrepresentation of the organization in the first place. While Phaneuf has done a great deal of research on the organization, she has chosen to infer intent that does not exist.
Apparently, she is all in on expanding Medicaid though the cost would be more than the state can bear. As many do, she fails to grasp that making a vast number of people eligible for “free” medical insurance is not the same as having health care actually available. I have heard it said that the state can afford it because the federal government covers a significant amount of the cost. That is ignoring the fact that the government, neither the state nor the federal, has money that they do not first take from the citizens.
As I read the comment that the goal of Americans for Prosperity is to ensure a free market economy, with free market health care, as if that were a bad thing, I am horrified. We have a person advocating for socialism right here in our hometown paper.
This country was founded on the principle of capitalism and free markets, with the founders creating a constitution that limited the government, not the people. Ms Phaneuf is specifically asking for the government to make her decisions for her. She states that it is a burden to make medical decisions for oneself, rather than a freedom!
The continued criticism of this organization and its alignment with other “conservative think tanks,” is quite disturbing. We want limited government! We do not want the government making our decisions! We want true capitalism! That is freedom and that is how the founders of this country intended it to be!
As I read the words from her article, “they are united in their belief in the power of the individual,” and see her malign the idea of working together to achieve that goal, I am appalled. What in the world has happened to people that they abhor freedom?
I went to school right here in Cassville. I learned about how this country was founded and have a reverence for the sacrifices they made to ensure we were a free people, protected by the constraints of the Constitution they gave us, from tyrannical government. To see people advocating for the exact opposite of that is abhorrent to the senses.
As there is apparently more in the same vein coming in the future, I shall plan on further comment. However, as a side note, the Koch brothers are well known as libertarians, not conservatives and in the last few years donated more to democrats than republicans.
Kathy Casey
Cassville
