Look Up!

When I was young, my sister required special shoes to go to Catholic School, and my mother tasked me with the charge to go from Staten Island to Manhattan to a store in the Empire State Building. Now I knew it was on 34th Street but not exactly where. So on the bus, to the ferry, to the subway, and now at 34th Street. Now I was lost. In those days one did not ask for directions, it would expose you as a foreigner. So what did I do, called mother.

Now my mother was not the kind and caring millennial helicopter mom. I would not have been stuck on 34th and Broadway with no GPS or the like, not even a map. I was I believe about twelve. So I did call mother. Her curt reply was simple: "Look Up!"

Oh yes, there it was, I got my bearings and completed my task.

Now to the new socialists of the world who want to denude the billionaires I say "Look Up"around Manhattan and and see the names: Rockefeller, Sloan, Kettering, Weill, Gerstner, Vagelos, Millstein, and the list goes on. These are the wealthy that contributed to the health care system these folks bemoan. They accept patients from anywhere, from any means, because of the wealthy. So I say "Look Up" as you go past these hospitals that take care of you, your family, your fellow workers, your Supreme Court Justices.

Now imagine that you took this money and sent it to the Government, the most inefficient entity known to man and woman. You would have ear marks for chicken museums in Oklahoma, corn fritter studies in Iowa, and the good Lord knows what else. Instead the money went directly to build and sustain institutions that cure cancers and save lives.

So the new socialists and the rest of you, "Look Up"! My grandmother was a Socialist, a real socialist, not spending time getting laughs but devoting her time to caring for TB patients as they attempted to deal with that deadly disease. So to the new socialists and their ilk, "Look Up" and see what has gone before. The signs of what those fortunate enough to give back are right in front of your face!