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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Talk about out of touch with reality.

According to the Denver Post, at a recent town hall on health care, Senator Michael Bennet "used Veterans Affairs as an example of a public insurance program that is working for one group of people."

So he wants all of us to be able to get medical care like that given at Walter Reed Hospital, where "Soldiers face neglect, frustration at Army's top medical facility."

2 comments:

Fester said...: My brother is an American Indian and so when my sister was pregnant she could have used the governments "free" health care for native Americans, but they paid quite a bit more and avoided that system because of how poor the medical services are at these Indian clinics.

My wife works at a doctors office and most of the doctors will only see 1 new medicare patient a month, because medicare/medicaid pays so much less and is so much more cumbersome to deal with than other insurance companies. Basically if that is your insurance, you will not get in at the center my wife works at.

Walter Reed is infamous for being dirty and a place you do not want to be part of.

I don't understand why people want the government to take over the health industry even more, when we already have examples of how bad government health care is. If government health care is so great why isn't congress on medicaid?; August 15, 2009 2:09 PM
Allen said...: Gotta leave these guys. I can't imagine they really understand what they're arguing. That is, to them these programs are fine. To anyone who understands the issues the VA faces with health care or the US Postal Service comparing the proposed federal insurance plan to them is not an argument for doing it but a reason why to avoid it. Surely they just don't get it, that is, they really think things like the VA's health care system, federal flood insurance (a program that's essentially bankrupt), USPS (so in-effecient that 80% of it's costs are still due to labor & going to bleed another 1,000 million dollars this year), Amtrak, et al.... surely they're just oblivious to how inefficient and counterproductive these agencies are. Otherwise why would Obama compare the proposed health care insurance to the USPS and now Bennett compare it to the screwed up care the VA doles out?; August 16, 2009 1:16 PM

BlueCarp: Without Apology

I believe in freedom. Without apology.

Taxes encroach on freedom.

State power encroaches on freedom.

I am not an absolutist. I am not an ideologue. I am not an anarchist.

I believe that taxes and the state are necessary.

Yet so is water. Too much of it, and you drown. You die.

Taxation and state power have grown far beyond any legitimate usefulness they might have. Our society is drowning in both. We have given ourselves a fire hose when all we need is a Dixie Cup.

The United States government is the single largest employer in the country. This is obscene.

The government produces nothing of value. Nothing. Why are so many people necessary to produce nothing of value? They are not.

They are wasteful. Would that it were that was all. But they are worse than wasteful. They prevent actual production of value. The government makes it harder for people that wish to produce to do so.

Unreasonable licenses, fees, regulation, red tape and bureaucracy make it so.

Without the production of value, there are no jobs. There is no food. There is no shelter. People produce these things. Government does not.

Indeed, oftentimes people form corporations to produce things. Yet corporations are nothing. They are legal fiction. Corporations are nothing but the individuals that comprise them.

True, government is nothing but people that comprise it. The difference is that people are free to purchase things from the people in a corporation or not, yet people are forcibly coerced into giving money to the government.

To some, this government coercion is fine. To me, it is not.

I make no apology for being anti-government.

I am tired of being criticized for lacking compassion because I am against the government and against the forcible confiscation of people’s money. It is not the government’s job to provide compassion.

It is mine. It is yours.

By sloughing off the responsibility of “compassion” over to the government, some are relieved of the moral burden of being compassionate themselves.

If they vote in favor of government force to take other people’s money to help the needy, they are compassionate. They care. At least that is the fiction under which these misguided people operate. It is so much easier to believe in fiction than reality.

It is not compassionate to take someone else’s money for a cause, no matter how worthy. It is compassionate to voluntarily give money to a cause in which one believes.

Some say charity will never be sufficient to provide for all the worthy causes. That government taxation is necessary to provide for all of these worthy causes. I say these people’s definition of “worthy cause” is overly broad.

If people do not wish to give money to a cause, the cause is not worthy to that person. It is immoral to force that person to give anyway, because government deems it necessary.

It is so much easier to force others to donate than to ask nicely. If one has to ask, then the answer might be “no.”

The faux-compassionate, pro-government faction can not stand for that. They deem themselves too compassionate to give others that freedom.

I am anti-government. I am anti-tax. I am pro-freedom. I am pro-liberty.

And I make no apologies.

BlueCarp

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Talk about out of touch with reality.

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