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GraniteGrok vs. GraniteState Progress – If It Takes A Villiage…

Progressive_Flo_CommunistaGraniteState progress has given us an excellent opportunity to show you the stark difference between Progressive/Democrats and Conservative/Tea Party folks.

Allow me to elaborate.

Jerry DeLemus recently suffered an injury.  Jane Aitken set up a donation page and solicited donations to help offset any costs associated with his injury and time away from work.  When I learned about the fundraising page I posted this at GraniteGrok.com

Please Donate to the Fund for Jerry DeLemus

Many of you already know that Jerry DeLeums has been in the hospital trying to recover from a fractured pelvis and a number of complications related to that. Because of his injury he will be unable to work for quite some time so a fundraising page has been set up for donations to help Jerry while he if off his feet.

Please take a moment to make a donation today. Every little bit helps.

Thank you.

Jerry is dedicated fighter for freedom here in New Hampshire, and all over the country. As an example of that here is our 3-part interview with Jerry at the Bundy Ranch in April of last year. Follow the link and scroll down to see the players for each of the segments

 

Over at GraniteState Progress they noticed that there was a fund and  made it all about the politics.

NH Tea Party leader and Rochester 912 Project organizer Jerry DeLemus – you might recognize him as one of the milita leaders from the Cliven Bundy ranch fiasco – hates Obamacare. He’s organized petitions against the Affordable Care Act, endorsed candidates based on their promise to repeal it, and rallied against the landmark health care law which increases access to quality, affordable health care coverage for countless Americans.

Yet DeLemus and his family are now accepting community donations for his medical bills after a recent fall because “he has no [health] insurance.”

The post goes on and on about government managed health care, and fighting for ObamaCare, and on and on, and ends with this.

(Contributors to the DeLemus fund include failed NH State Senate candidate JP Marzullo, who also opposes Obamacare, and his wife Donna, who appeared in a flawed Americans for Prosperity ad opposing the health law.)

To be clear, they are never mean, they do not wish him ill, and they even hope he recovers soon, but Jerry’s circumstances are just another wheel on which to grind their progressive axe, and no I don’t think they encouraged anyone to donate or have donated themselves.

(And yes, they spelled Militia wrong.)

Now.  Contrast that to this…posted Dec 12, 2014

When I learned that Progressive Blogger and Democrat activist Susan Bruce had been injured in a car accident and a donation page had been set up for her the first thing I did was this.

I have just learned that Democrat/progressive New Hampshire blogger Susan Bruce was in a very serious motor-vehicle accident a few weeks ago suffering numerous injuries.

She sustained serious injuries — shattered femur; 8 broken ribs; a compression fracture of vertebrae in her mid-spine.

She is at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, where she is getting physical therapy and ongoing medical attention. She has had repairs of her leg and spine. Her ribs will heal in time. But she will have a long and difficult period of healing and rehabilitation.

We probably do not agree on one single thing politically, but she is still a person in need of care and comfort.  I’d like to offer my prayers and best wishes to Susan for her recovery and hope that you will do so as well.

If you would like to offer financial support for her recovery you may do so here.

I’d say that was it, but that’s not entirely correct.  We then immediately got the Grok bloggers together at GraniteGrok and took up a collection for Susan Bruce.

Donation to Susan Bruce

Susan needed help and while our donation was not large, at the time it was one of the largest donations up to that point.

Since then a lot more people came together and helped raise thousands of dollars for her ‘recovery fund.’  I know that most of those folks were her friends and family and no small number of progressive and Democrat activists and that’s great.

I only hope that our efforts to spread the word helped advance the goal of private giving to aid someone in need.  No axe grinding.  No strings attached.’  And no politics, …until the “we just can’t help ourselves” progressives at GraniteState Progress made it about politics.

The politics is not about Jerry or Susan, but about a difference in ideas.   The “It takes a village” people on the left give you the impression that what they mean is families hunkering down or standing up together but at the end of the day what they really mean is that everyone gets taxed and some central planners manage everything.  yes, there is still some private giving, but that continues to decline as the government, with the help of folks like those at GSP, push more and more into what was once the private sphere.  Choices grow more limited.  As the government and regulatory burdens grow there is less free capital for private giving.  Opposing their plans is a sign of weakness, mimicking these privately (the way we did it for hundreds of years before) is hypocrisy, and operating outside the controlled space of central planners will be mocked.

On the other side, Jerry chose not to have Health Insurance, which–by the way– is an option embedded into the health care law written and passed by Democrats.  If Jerry paid the fine that is in the law, he is not only following the law, he is still helping to fund Obama-Care for people who want it until such time as the Government decides that this will no longer an option; and if you don’t think that is a possibility consider whether ten years ago you thought the government would be fining you for not bending the knee and buying the insurance plan they had arranged for you from the provider they allowed to offer it.

Jerry has accepted the consequences without whining about it.  I do not expect he will use his injury for political advantage.  And people who know Jerry have voluntarily offered to help him.  He didn’t ask for any of it.   Bu he appreciates it and hopes God blesses those who have come to his aid.

I suspect he has every intention of paying for every dime of his care no matter what it takes, and people will continue to offer to help him along the way without force or coercion because that is how we do things in our village.

He is free to accept or decline the charity.  No one will fine him for that decision.   The IRS will not need to perform an audit, though he is a TEA Party activist so maybe they already have Jerry on the audit list, just like GraniteState Progress has him on their list,  because that is also how the progressive village works.

 

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