Coburn Townhall Answer on Public Option

This will just smack you on the head with common sense.

I have never understood why people think the only way to "care" is to have the government "care" for them.

Which one of these scenarios sounds more "caring" to you:

a) A community coming together as individual citizens to care for its downtrodden, needy, and sick. Let us not forgot this passage from Ezekiel 34: 3-4:

3 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. 4 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

In this passage Ezekiel is not being called to prophesy against the government of Israel. The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel to prophesy against "the shepherds of Israel." The failure to take care of our downtrodden, needy, and sick is not the failure of a government whose job it NEVER was in the first place but of our churches, our communities, our "shepherds."

b) A government taxes your money and let's a bureaucratic cadre of government-paid employees make decisions about "caring" for the downtrodden, needy, and sick from Washington, D.C.

I am so sick and tired of people asking the government to take other people's money and their caring for them.

I am not trying to be overly political here, but Dr. Coburn's message in the above video hit a nerve or two.