Ben Carson, the country’s head of Health and Human Services
Department, took a tour of a West Virginia drug rehabilitation facility a few
days ago.
After touring the facility, he said, “Our citizens are our
most precious resource. We have to treat
them like that. We have to do everything
we can to bring them to their maximum potential, because we only have 330
million people in this country. We have
to compete with countries like China and India with four times that many
people.”
He is talking about human beings as if they are just
machines. Machines that are needed to
compete against countries that have more machines then we do.
Therefore, that is the reason that these
people need help, to become rehabilitated machines that need to get back on line.
Is there a chance that the people in the facility are not
machines? They are people with real
emotions. They have families,
communities and lives to lead that have nothing to do with being a machine.
They should also not be treated like one of 330 million. But as individuals with distinct
personalities that are different then all others. (By the way, that number includes
children. Are our children also just
machines?)
The Republicans are also talking about individual
freedoms. Then, please step up and treat
people as individuals and not a bunch of machines that need to be repaired and
get back on line.
Only then can we help them become clean.
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