SOUTHERN ARIZONA (SGT NEWS) - John Edwards, never a warm and cozy sight to doctors and other medical professionals and a presidential candidate for 2008, is pushing for a taxpayer-funded Universal Healthcare plan, further nudging the United States closer and closer to pure socialism.

When asked if these kinds of taxpayer funded “investments” are a priority over balancing the clearly lopsided federal budget, he responded “If I were choosing now between which is more important, I think the investments are more important,” during an ABC television interview recently. Investments in socialism are clearly more important to Edwards. The priority of spending money supersedes saving money with every Democrat or Republican running for president in 2008.

Although balancing the budget is apparently important to the southern politician, he admitted that a federal government run Universal Healthcare plan may prevent the newly elected Democratic Congress from fixing the “fiscal ditch” that we find ourselves in.

Socialism has never been a political policy that resulted in curbed spending, fiscal responsibility and a constitutional government in the United States. Politicians on both sides of the aisle view further government control over the lives of the American people as the foundation of their stronghold over our nation as a whole.

Socialized medicine is dangerous to the availability of those medicines to many people, including our nation’s elderly. When governments begin to prioritize people’s hardships, we begin to fall into an abyss that is not easily lifted. Government control never solves society’s problems, and Healthcare is no exception.

We strongly urge the American people to reject any push towards Universal Healthcare from any political party. Government control of our lives needs to be lessened, not strengthened. Let us ensure our nation is run under the guidelines of our Constitution, not socialism.