Any Reason to Be Thankful?

Published: Wed, 25 Nov 2009

Description: Peter Johnson Jr.'s prescription for being thankful this Thanksgiving

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" We'll just in time for Thanksgiving senate Democrats reveal their version of health care but does it give Americans much to be thankful for. Peter Johnson junior is here with his Thanksgiving prescription for truth -- Peter."

" good morning Clayton thank you you know George Washington reminded us that we should give thanks for God's kind care and our civil and religious liberty. -- Lincoln called on the whole American people to unite with one heart and one voice on this important day. And a few weeks after Pearl Harbor president Roosevelt signed tomorrow's holiday into law. One way or another Thanksgiving is associated with Americans enduring -- embarking on a cruel winter. In 2009 we have much to give thanks for. -- Next week we'll hear from the president as he -- our future in Afghanistan. And our place in the world in its first test as commander in chief. And as peripheral as we are free success and we are. When we look at another transformative arena the looming plans of health reform. As we search for the best way to help those who need our help the most we asked. Should we give thanks for new payroll taxes fines regulations. Overseers. Bureaucracies boards and commissions. Should we give thanks for a plan to pay for health care. On the backs of the oldest and the -- Give thanks for health rationing in the name of comparative effectiveness. As we experiment. With breast health of forty to fifty year old mothers and grandmothers the new order in which our government demands at the risk of prosecution. That we buy an insurance product may be from the government itself. We're bending the cost curve means higher taxes and fewer hip replacements. For an -- when doctors threaten to walk away from appalling. Because the democratic field has been replaced by -- federal register regulations. So as we gather together to -- the lord's blessings. As -- watch wonderful -- parades. And we cheered are living with for touchdowns. As we pray for our troops and our president. And our leaders and we consider the important choices congress shall make in the coming weeks we will give thanks for the freest. The greatest nation in the history of the world. And we will optimistically resolved that a year from now it's all about facts and not about regrets. From -- fox family yours we wish you -- happy Thanksgiving. "

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