[Land-speed] NON LSR Political RANT

Bob Clancy bob at southmtpages.com
Tue Mar 23 05:35:23 MST 2010


Seems to me a lot of people are missing the point.

First, we have this thing called the "insurance industry" whose job is 
to collect money (from us), ration care, and turn over as much money as 
possible to their investors.  That's the only reason they exist.  They 
suck up more bucks from us than the health-care system in any other 
industrialized country, and do nothing productive in return.

Did you notice that (admittedly with some federal help for the very 
poor) people are being forced to buy insurance from those corporate 
vultures? Yet a  non-profit public option was given up.  And a 
non-profit national health system (like the rest of the industrialized 
world has) was not even considered.  What the heck is Socialist / 
Communist / Maoist / Nazi about that?

Secondly, there are a lot of people running around pretending to be 
"patriots".... yet what is patriotic about working against "the common 
welfare" (heard those words before?).  It seems to me that some folks 
want no taxes, no government, and complete "freedom".  Well, if you have 
that, you don't have a nation.  A nation is a bunch of people working 
together to promote the common good.  We're in it *together*.  Sure, the 
line has to be drawn somewhere between anarchy and totalitarianism, but 
I fail to see how making a weak, compromised effort to rein in the 
abuses of the insurance industry is going too far.  This whole thing is 
blown grossly out of proportion.

Third, I'd just like to mention a few of our horrible Socialist 
institutions..... schools, libraries, roads, fire departments, the FAA, 
police departments, the military, the Coast Guard, the National Weather 
Service, NOAA, the US Geologic Survey, Forest Service, BLM, and every 
town, city, county and state government that provides water, sewer, 
garbage collection....... and paid the guy to drive the snow plow that 
made it possible for me to get home a couple nights ago.

Add to that Social Security, a program infinitely more Socialistic than 
anything in the 'health reform' bill.  That didn't seem to destroy the 
country.  In fact, I know a lot of people (who paid into it all along) 
who think it's a pretty good program.

Looking at all this in the light of history and the experiences of other 
'advanced' nations, I sure can't fathom what all the hysteria is about.

Bob C.

PS, Where were all the anti-tax deficit hawks when the Bush 
administration was sending the deficit through the roof?


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