Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, August 17, 2009 6:17:56 PM
Have you ridden a train lately? For most people reading this post the answer will most likely be a resounding NO! AmTrack has been for years a giant waste of American money as another "government-owned-corporation since 1971". Designed to somehow rescue the passenger train industry from the pesky takeover by the airlines flying all those passengers from here to there in hours instead of days it has been nothing but a major failure. It constantly requires influxes of cash from the U.S. government to keep it from collapsing under the weight of its own rusted-out-of-date-deisel-engines.
Now the government which is gettting the message from the voters that we don't want socialized healthcare, is trying to do an end-run around by saying they are willing to explore government "co-ops" to supply healthcare to the American people. This is nothing different from what AmTrak did for the rail systems. It's merely re-branding "socialized-medicine" as "health co-ops" in which the government under they disguise of a so-called independent corporation will be controlling our healthcare. This discussion might also being used to throw us "off-the-scent" and make the town-hallers back-off or not show up anymore making it look like there isn't any more discent on the subject of Obama-care and provide the assurance to the legislature that it's now OK to pass the bill through Congress.
On a separate but similar note, I was listening to Fox News and they were discussing how healthcare now takes up about 17% of our GDP and will most likely be rising in coming years. It then occured to me why congress is so interested in taking it over. Not because they want to help the American people, but because it threatens THEIR piece of the pie. For if there is one thing the federal government hates more, its competition for your dollars! Lets say the 17% is correct and that for the average American the federal government takes 25%. If the healthcare grows to 20%, then something has got to give and most likely that will be the people demanding lower takes. In short, healthcare is competing with the federal government. So as with anything else, its easier to BUY the other piece of the pie than to compete with it. That is the real reason our politicians are so worried about the rising costs of healthcare and also why they want to buy NOW and not later. Because its cheaper to buy it today than to wait later and buy it for more tomorrow.
We can't let these morons make us think that the war is won! We need to keep fighting them until this bill is DEAD on the house floor!