STR : THE FREEDOM BLOG

One of the reasons I love working for ShelleyTheRepublican is that you get to meet great people with great ideas. For instance in a recent ShelleyPAC prayer-circle dedicated to formulating a policy platform for our next Republican Presidency, my good Friend Billy suggested a great way to cut some of the Federal fat left over from previous misguided Democratic governments:

We should simply abolish all the wasteful Federal agencies, starting with that famous money-pit Center for Disease Control.

Billy didn’t say much about the idea at the time - He was buys explaining about the liberal conspiracy to put mind-control drugs and flouride in our water supplies.

I guess he had bigger issues to deal with so to him it was just another great idea of the hundreds of great ideas that pop into his mind every minute. But for a guy like me when you see a great idea you gotta go for it. And this sure is a great, truly Conservative idea - the sort of idea that is the hallmark of a serious Presidential contender.

If you didn’t get round to subscribing to Billy’s audio ministry, why don’t you do that right now. It will give you a chance to listen to the short commentary I’m talking about.

Billy starts from the sensible and correct observation that there are no sexually transmitted diseases in the Bible. There’s no need for federally mandated HPV vaccines and no secularist evolutionists explaining that we should love the bacteria because they are our common ancestors: The simple fact is that all those diseases did not exist back then because God had not yet unleashed those punishments.

So why should we abolish the Center for Disease control? For starters, it’s precisely the kind of government fat that a true conservative would cut away. Public health is precisely the sort of thing that should be entrusted to Churched-based local charities. Where in the constitution does it say that Federal government has a monopoly over diseases?

We can all agree that disease control is firstly no business of federal government: If it has to be run by government then it ought to be the domain of the states. The Federal CDC forces state health officers to adopt their flawed secularist evolutionary perspective. I’d like to give states the option to base their strategies on proven Biblical principles.

The bible teaches us that all we need to cure disease is the power of prayer - so why are we spending billions in federal hand-outs for Medicaire, SCHIP and other unnecessary health-handouts? These wasteful federal programs are diverting funds away from the War on Global Terrorism, which surely must be our number 1 priority!

I really think this is too good an idea to waste - our constitution must be defended form every cry-baby liberal that thinks it’s a federal problem every time an infant barfs, or cuts his pinkie on a toy. When will they learn to take responsibility for their own self-inflicted problems.

As Billy correctly point out - the cause of disease is sin. If we live our lives as Christ expects there would be no more disease.

Jimmy