Tag Archives: human-rights

Rights

Some, our forefathers and mothers gave to us, they seem to be taken away daily. Again, by war and terrorism abroad and ashore. Homeland and security don’t belong in the same sentence.

I had the luxury of knowing I’d have an education, career, marriage. Many people do not get what I received in my childhood.

Rights and priveleges. To live is nearly a right. To learn to drive is a privelege that can be taken away any day.

I learned this morning that in Connecticut, insurance capital of the world, one is not allowed to sue for injuries on a home insurance policy without suing a person, not applying to the insurance company.

We thought of moving to NYC once and declined due to moving and living costs. Now that I find our insurers for life, health, home, umbrella, everything will not cover us until we sue someone else, this is a state to be avoided at any cost.

We pay for insurance. We have the right to use insurance as needed, like if some kid throws one of our pumpkins through our living room window on Halloween. I’m not giving you ideas! Just get your costume and be nice at the door. Trick or treat, Dee

Freedom

We don’t actually have freedom in the great US of A. We natives give it up at birth, and heaven forbid the illegal aliens and their freedoms. My mother got a Green Card from Canada over fifty years ago to live here and experience our freedoms.

We earn a license to live here, one to drive and to work and to pay the government a good portion of our wages. Part of that is to Social Security, which we’ll never see because our government chooses to spend our “lock box” money elsewhere.

Our government also says we are subject to God. I don’t mind that, but don’t want my government telling me that. Worship is one thing I can do without government interference, especially as it was contraindicated by our founding fathers. Who is anyone to print on our money “In God We Trust.”

Why did we have no founding mothers? Did these founding fathers spring from the gods as did Zeus?

Back to freedom. We have no freedom to take care of our health or well-being. Our lives may be insured by employers but not to make things right for a spouse when one is hit by a bus.

Perhaps employer-based health and other plans are bound for obscurity but until there are alternatives, I’m ok with that. Right now it’s a scary world out there and the next person who says “I can’t talk to you, you’re ONLY the wife,” I’d like to at least throw a glass of water in their face.

If we don’t have choices, we don’t have freedom. Can I leave the country and become a citizen elsewhere? Probably. Do I want to? No. I want our country to be all that it can be for all of us. Make it work.

A few weeks ago we hired a lot of politicians to speak for us. Let’s make sure they do. Then freedom is a word we may be able to use again. Dee