PRIVATE COMPANIES VS. THE GOVERNMENT
by Cody Robert Judy, ©2014, blogging at CodyJudy
(Jan. 16, 2014) — One of the very valid points I believe in people who you hear complaining or criticizing other people made by those people who are listening is that it’s easy to complain about someone and much harder to come up with what you’d call a positive alternative to what you’re complaining about.
From my first campaign in 2002 for Congress and throughout four of the other campaigns, I always tried very hard to have a viable and solvent campaign platform with fresh ideas for the particular race I was running. What makes me different from the others running in the same race? Why should people vote for me?
Over the 12 years I’ve been running for this or that, I’ve seen some of my ideas blossom and flourish with other candidates, and I think to myself that if that happens at all in a race, it’s worth running and worth losing for because if the ideas are good and are implemented my goals of pushing those ideas has come to fruition and are indeed helping people.
If you’re running for office without the intent of helping others, you’re really running for the wrong reasons. I think that is the main reason I don’t mind losing and one of the reasons I really don’t calculate the losses of the past to be a reason not to run in the future.
One of the very most difficult subjects to deal with in running for a federal office is the question of healthcare and what should be done. I’ve heard Obama himself say it a few times, “If you’ve got a better idea, I’m willing to hear it. The Republicans haven’t got any better ideas; they are just good at criticizing ideas.”
Indeed, from whatever side or middle of the aisle one represents, new ideas are bound to get a host of criticism. It comes with representing any territory or field. With that said, before Obamacare came into existence, my “conservative platform” for healthcare involved basically an acknowledgement by the government that it could never compete with non-government healthcare or insurance.
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