Nemo128
Audioholic Field Marshall
Say what you will, don't really care, this is still great.
Just wait for the Government tell yaI must have missed the point.
You mean your insurance company doesn't tell your doctor what he can or cannot do by paying or not paying for the procedure? What's the difference?I see the problem with this is, it's a power grab. Do we want the government telling us anything about OUR medical decisions and spending more money that we don't have?
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They can pay it out just fine if they jack up your taxes and cut more defense spending. But then, we'd complain about taxes and a deficient military.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/19/AR2009081903929.html
They can't even run the Cash For Clunkers program effectively. How can we trust them to run Health Care?
The Cash For Clunkers funding comes from the stimulus cash that's already there.They can pay it out just fine if they jack up your taxes and cut more defense spending. But then, we'd complain about taxes and a deficient military.
That's where you're mistaken.Think politics and economics are easy? Get really into either field rather than reading about it as an outsider.
These are government services and have nothing to do with socialism.Say what you will, don't really care, this is still great.
One of the local headlines this AM had to do with the drastic decline in donated vehicles to organizations that help troubled teens get back on track. This drop is directly attributed to CARS and it's something I mentioned when this BS program was first announced. This has so many problems it's hard to know where to start.What I find funny about "Cash for Clunkers" program is that they put an age limit on cars that qualify for it. They have to be less than 25 years old.
My buddy has a '79 Pontiac Bonneville with a V8 engine which gets abysmal mileage. It's not a "collector" car, just a dilapidated daily driver he uses locally.
When he went to see about trading it in, he was told it's too old!?! You would think this would be just the kind of car they want to remove from the roads, no?
"We'll pretend to pay you if you pretend to work".Maybe one day, you can wake up in your state supplied apartment with your state ordered room mates. You can check your state owned cupboards where the state rationed food should be if any had been in stock at the state food store. Then walk to the state owned bus that will take you to your state mandated workplace, performing tasks for the good of the state. On your way home, you can stop to watch a state sanctioned movie about the glory of the state. You will also have to take the state owned bus home again because the state built car that you ordered two years ago has not been built yet.
Your state trained and state compensated doctor will see you next year but will not be able to treat you because the state medicine supply is perpetually low and the state diagnostic machines are only available to state officials. Your children will still receive their state education. If they are good in math and science, they will be enlisted in the service of the state military. If they are good in languages and social studies, they will write and promote the state propaganda. If they just aren't any good at all in school, they will be assigned to a state factory. If you are lucky and raise your children to be sociopaths, they will be assigned to the state police force or invited to join the state party and become a political leader.
On your way home, you can check again at the state food store only to find it empty because the state owned grain stocks were exported for much needed foreign currency to support the operations of the state. It's not all bad though because your state rationed allotment of alcohol is always in full supply. You find yourself wishing that the state supply of firewood had been in stock so you could raise your state mandated apartment above freezing using the standard state supplied wood stove in your room that you share with another family. It's too bad, you think, that your state supplied blanket is threadbare and the state supply of blankets is out of stock. And as you fall asleep on your state supplied bed with your wife and children sharing your blanket for warmth, you can't thank God for the benefits of socialism because the state does not tolerate religion.
Your point, while a bad one, was understood.Yeah, obviously everyone missed the point.