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Despite the objection of medical professionals to be forced into H1N1 inoculation, many hospitals are resulting to socialism to have their way.  The hospital I am working at has required all staff to have the H1N1 flu shot by a certain date or they will have to wear a mask while on hospital property.  Refusing both will make you a number in Obama’s ten percent unemployment rate.

Technically, the employer is not forcing you to get the shot.  You can wear a mask.  But, who will want to walk around a hospital with a mask on?  It would startle patients if you were to enter their room with a mask.  Instead, the hospital’s approach is to indirectly force you into submission.  They are confident you submit voluntarily through social pressure. The hospital knows most will give in to avoid the hassle, embarrassment, and possible scorn by patients and other spineless staff.

Did I miss something?  Where are the wards full of dying flu patients?  There are none.  This overblown reaction to nothing is a symptom of government manhandling of our health care system.  Employers are just following suit.

Are we really going to put up with that?  You bet we are.  If we let the government control our health care and print money like it grows on trees – then a painless little shot for the ‘public good’ is no big deal.  If we let government push us around, then our employers will, too.

Source: The Nation’s Birthday:  Chicago’s Centennial Celebration of Washington’s Inauguration.  Page 185.  April 30, 1889.  Chicago: Slason Thompson and Co., Printers, 1890.

“Today a hundred years have gone since first the nation’s life began.  The infant of that day stands a strong man acknowledging no superior among the nations of the earth.  The century has been filled with momentous events.  Revolutions have shaken the thrones of Europe.  Empires have risen and fallen across the sea.  But the union of these States has grown always stronger and more vigorous.  The noise of battles and the tramp of armies have come to us not only from afar.  We have had our own experiences of war at home and abroad.  The Constitution of a hundred years has been assailed from without and from within.  But like the mountain oak it has gained strength and vigor from the tempest and stands to day a proud monument to its founders the rock of national unity and strength.

Under it we and our fathers have for a century past enjoyed the blessings of liberty controlled and regulated by law.  Under it let us hope the same blessings may still be enjoyed by generations yet unborn who will stand upon the now silent shores of the far off coming time.  Upon you who are boys and girls today the fate of these coming generations will largely depend.  You may not be called on to engage in the conflicts of arms as your fathers have been.  But you will have to fight battles no less serious.  Each generation must fight its own battles and every generation finds new battles to fight.

This my young friends is our country. That flag is our flag. Think what it has cost to defend it. That flag has been bathed in the blood of heroes.  It is the emblem of our liberty the symbol of national unity and power.  It represents home and friends and freedom and country. Many a man among us has seen it floating above the smoke of battle.”