In Moore, a very red County in North Carolina, the head of the Democratic party and the head of the Republican party have been writing opinion pieces espousing their party's beliefs. In the most recent submission, John Owen (r) explains how the poor choose not to carry insurance instead they gamble that they will not need it.
In government as in life, there is always a tension between those who find themselves unprepared for unexpected misfortune and those who are fortunately prepared for misfortune, expected or not.
The latter have sacrificed to pay ever-increasing health insurance premiums; the former are those who gamble that the taxpayers who paid the high cost of insurance, or those who took a job at lower pay for the assurance of coverage, will sacrifice even more by paying even higher health-care costs.
Is it right to choose cell service rather than Blue Cross? Should the young and the reckless, the imprudent or the illegal, assume they will receive care at the local emergency room, utilizing the bankruptcy court as the bill payer of last resort?
Republicans have been complaining to the editor and publisher that the newspaper is too liberal. Both the editor and publisher assert that the Democrats have also complained that they are too conservative. Their answer to both is...
Our job isn’t to protect politicians from themselves. It’s to make sure our readers are exposed to a forum for civic debate. Democracy can be messy at times. This election season seems to be proving that point
Personally I feel this is a good policy. To their credit, they have just implemented a new "talk back" platform. On each letter to the editor,each opinion piece and each editorial they have added a area so citizens can comment. Please visit the Pilot Newspaper online and help the Moore County Democrats hit back on these highly volitile Republican talking points.