The essence of the health care debate is not whether those without health insurance should be entitled to health care. It has nothing to do with insurance companies.

Neither does it concern the government’s ability to properly fund the program. The smallest amount of economic literacy can answer this question with an overwhelming negative.

In reality, the essence of this historical and critical debate is government control.

To those who are still in favor of government-run health care, an awareness of the prevalence of common sense would be a good idea to hold onto right now.

If nothing else, Americans should understand two points about the health care bill – that it was drafted by the government and that it turns over the control of health care from the private sector to the government.

If the massive health care bill were somehow converted to 10 bullet points, none of its contents would provide any notion of a limit on government intervention in people’s private lives.

Those who are still miraculously unconvinced or complacent with the far-left’s lust for power through government-run health care should ask why the bill was recently proposed to be named after late Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Is our current government truly arrogant enough to propose that this ‘public option’, which they claim is for the people, should be named after someone other than “the people”?

Yes, it is.

When did the liberals begin supporting things like public health care, government spending, and the environment? Did they discover these issues themselves or did they wait for the government and the undead media to bring them up?

And what exactly does the far-left want the rest of us to realize about their beloved government?

Do they themselves realize that the top one percent of income earners in the US pay almost 40 percent of the income tax? That the top five pay over 60 percent?

Which “selfish,” “evil” person does the seething far-left statist distrust more? The wealthy businessman who achieves the American dream while “screwing over” the “little guy,” or their very own elected officials who have taken the oath of public service only to seek the elimination of the American dream for future generations?

In our current health care debate, the endless series of childish and irrelevant liberal claims combined with a sensationalistic attempt to evoke sympathy from the opposition is the stuff of adolescents.

Members of the far-left follow a principle claiming that the winners in this world are not necessarily entitled to their earnings.

They say, “Failure is okay.failure is not your fault.” It is not their place to make that claim.

The sorriest comments I’ve ever heard from the mouth of an elected official do not consist of measly gaffs or grammatical errors.

If anything, public servants like George W. Bush and Sarah Palin exhibited the type of strength and conviction that I’m afraid I may never again witness in politics.

No, the comments have come from the mouths of President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, and those who support them.

Their rhetoric has thrust me into a fear that our concept of freedom may leave this land for the first time and will exist only in our minds.

Michelle Obama recently said, “Barack Obama will require you to work. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.”

Obama’s press Secretary Robert Gibbs recently admitted to a Senior White House Correspondent that he was afraid to answer a particular question because the journalist would “impugn the motives of the answer.”

And lastly, Obama claims, “We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”

When will the liberals abandon their precious political correctness and join the rest of the country by angrily and appropriately responding, “Who the hell do you people think you are?”

- Chuck Griffin is a senior from Jefferson majoring in telecommunications