Matthew 13:1–9, 18–23 NRSV
1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2 Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 Let anyone with ears listen!"
18 "Hear then the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. 22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. 23 But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty."
GOP SENATORS - Plant Healthcare Wisely!
Dear GOP Senators:
Pay attention!! Warren Buffet, the third richest person in the world (and far more successful than POTUS 45), said 26th of June 2017 during a PBS News Hour interview that Single Payer Universal Healthcare makes the most sense and since we are such a rich country we can afford to cover healthcare for each of our citizens. Buffet notes that healthcare costs have gone from 5% of the GDP in 1960 to 17% now – with no end in sight!!
GOP senators, especially those of you who proclaim to be persons of faith seeking God’s Just and Peaceable Reign for all --- put a bill forward now that establishes Single Payer Universal Healthcare. Such a bill will cut our healthcare costs in half when it removes the profit motive from taking care of the health of our citizens. Healthcare coverage is as necessary to our way of being as is Defense, Highways, Bridges, the Electrical Grid, Food Safety -- and the list goes on and on!!
Senators, get your act together and release Americans from the financial slavery healthcare binds them in. Returning half of 17% GDP back to American citizens will strengthen our economy in profoundly creative and imaginative ways that will be certain to make America great again. Stop POTUS 45 from fiddling while America burns to the ground – send the House AHCA bill back to Paul Ryan and his GOP House members who never read the bill they sent you to begin with.
Many of you GOP senators proclaim you are persons of faith. Prove it!! This week, you may possibly sow seed through your vote in terms of McConnellcare/Trumpcare/Ryancare. If you are a GOP automaton senator -- after the manner that POTUS 45 wants you to be -- you will robotically do as told and vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act without enacting anything close to what most makes sense, i.e. Single Payer Universal Healthcare. This is because POTUS 45 is only interested in a legislative win. Only a thorny heart like that of POTUS 45 peddles an agenda that would leave tens of millions of our fellow citizens vulnerable like seeds thrown on rough hard ground for birds to gobble up. And those citizens who will be gobbled up will be our fellow citizens forced into financial crises and bankruptcy over medical costs that you could have safeguarded them from. If you fail to safeguard American citizens from skyrocketing medical costs, then you will have committed democide. Each of those seeds gobbled up by financial predators will one fellow citizen in every 830 uninsured fellow citizens who will have to step forward to die due to lack of healthcare coverage.
Repeal of the ACA is not the action of a chief executive who protects American lives, it is the action of a despot who wants to wield absolute power. Too bad if 45 tantrums himself over failure of McConnellcare/Trumpcare/Ryancare -- just too damn bad.
GOP Senators, all Senators, it is time you exercise prophetic vision for the future. To all who want to make our failing healthcare system be profit driven benefitting big corporations and big pharma, your message needs to be, “Friends, it’s time to part ways, thanks for all you’ve done through the years but we’re going to take it from here now and plant wisely and plant deeply in good ground, Single Payer Universal Healthcare. It’s time to end poverty and end suffering.”
Brad Shumate
Free of Encumbrance
Eugene, Oregon
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