This last week has been an exercise in high theater \u2026 whether it is comedy or tragedy remains to be seen.\u00a0 I, for one, believe it could be called tragi-comedy, for many years ago a much respected friend pointed out to me that there is \u201cfunny ha ha\u201d and \u201cfunny sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
The week started with the Senate Democrats and one Senate RINO in Max Baucus\u2019 committee voting a thousand plus page \u201chealth care\u201d bill to the floor for debate.\u00a0 A bill that none of them had read that, we are told, purports to provide health insurance to the 46 million (they say) of our fellow citizens that have none.\u00a0 And only at a cost of $800,000,000,000+.\u00a0 A pittance compared to the $1,400,000,000,000 already spent this year by the federal government, a sum that pales when compared to the $12,000,000,000,000 national debt.<\/p>\n
The interesting thing is that the Baucus bill still leaves 16,000,000 of the 46,000,000 citizens still not covered.\u00a0 It was reported that the larger sum included 12,000,000 illegals and maybe as many as 15,000,000 young people who didn\u2019t want to buy health insurance.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see \u2026 12 + 15 + 16, \u2026 hmmmm! 43.\u00a0 46 \u2013 43 hmmmm! 3.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see \u2026 3,000,000 into $800,000,000,000.\u00a0 Just short of $275,000 per person served.\u00a0 Now of course the above is not the true picture, but it probably gives you a better idea about what is going on than you have gotten from anyone in Washington.<\/p>\n
The Congress has no idea of how to fund this program.\u00a0 But I can tell you.\u00a0 More taxes, more borrowing and by just outright printing more money.\u00a0 Or if you are a devout Democrat, by reducing Medicare payments to the old and the doctors stupid enough to minister to them or by taking it from the rich \u2026 i.e. billionaires or the big evil companies.<\/p>\n
To any sane person, this spending cannot be sustained.\u00a0 We know it in our guts, but we go along because \u201cthey\u201d the government apparently has a \u201cmiraculous pitcher.\u201d\u00a0 And since we, ourselves, cannot possibly produce enough to make any difference whatsoever, there must be someone somewhere who can.<\/p>\n
Well, our irresponsible debt can be paid by us, which we know we can\u2019t do, or by our children, may the Good Lord smite us if we take that route or our entire system will have to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n
We have been sweet talked into this by politicians who are magnificently adept at bribing us with our own money or by stealing our children\u2019s or other people\u2019s.<\/p>\n
We Ephors need to analyze this, suggest solutions and then find courses of action to stop this insanity or our Republic will be gone and along with it, human freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This last week has been an exercise in high theater \u2026 whether it is comedy or tragedy remains to be seen.\u00a0 I, for one, believe it could be called tragi-comedy, for many years ago a much respected friend pointed out … Continue reading