I'm a cypher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce. Also, my name is Kev and I own this here website.
I wouldn’t trust the government to make me a sandwich or organize my sock drawer. So why oh WHY would I trust them with something like health care?
Seriously, I’m asking.
Why should we trust them with such a huge undertaking? Because they’ve done such a bang-up job with their other responsibilities?
Ha.
The public educational system in this country is a joke. We’re graduating kids from high school who have no business graduating. Each year, the remedial reading, writing and match classes for college freshmen are overrun with students. And the worst of the worst don’t even bother with college.
We’re taxed to death by the IRS, who just happens to be headed by the one-headed monster known as Timothy Geithner, who didn’t pay his own taxes from 2001 to 2004. His excuse for not paying? He was “careless.” Yeah, that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy with feelings of trust.
It is inexplicable to me that anyone, regardless of their political leanings, could think it’s a good idea to have government run health care. If we had a Republican majority in all three branches of government, and they brought up the idea of government run health care, I’d still hate the idea. I’d hate it from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
Why? Because it’s a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea.
Imagine, if you will, you had an uncle. For simplicity, let’s call him Sam. Now, your Uncle Sam is (usually) well meaning and all, but he’s a moron. He owes everyone he knows money. He has debt collectors after him. He’s unorganized. He contradicts himself. He changes his mind all the time. He has split personalities, and those personalities are constantly arguing and bickering. When push comes to shove, he’s going to do what’s popular rather than what’s right. And, to be perfectly honest, if not for the fact he’s your uncle you’d have lost faith in him long ago.
Now, if you had your way, would you let Uncle Sam be your accountant and handle your money? Or how about teach your kids how to read and write? Would you let him perform heart surgery on you?
Hopefully, you would answer “no.”
Personally, the only thing I would trust Uncle Sam with was keeping me safe from criminals and terrorists. He does control the best military in the world, after all. I forget to mention that.
But other than that, nothing.
Not even my sandwich. He’d undoubtedly use white bread instead of wheat and regular mayo instead of light.
And there would probably be thumbtacks in it.
;-) 10.26.09 at 5:52 pm:
HOLLA!
;-) 10.26.09 at 7:00 pm:
LOL! Yes, I love that for simplicity’s sake you named him Sam. How clever. It just made it that much easier to understand.
Oh…there would definitely be thumbtacks in your sandwhich. You can take that to the bank.
;-) 10.26.09 at 9:46 pm:
@Angi: I’m assuming this either means you enjoyed the blog, or you’re about to start a rap career. If it’s the latter, I’d like to be mentioned in one of your songs.
@Audrey: Yes, I’m not sure where I got the name Sam. It just came to me.
I’ve never had them, but I doubt I’d like thumbtacks. Even Subway doesn’t offer them on their sandwiches. (Although they DO offer cucumbers, which I just find odd.)
;-) 10.26.09 at 11:11 pm:
But you’re forgetting all the things our government does right, such as… uh…
I was going to finish this comment by mentioning an insignificant success by our federal government, but I’m struggling to come up with one. The only thing I can think of is “Stamps,” but I don’t think that’s any sort of achievement, one way or the other.
I withdraw my comment.
;-) 10.27.09 at 8:53 am:
The other Kevin makes an excellent non-point. For a chuckle, he needs to read my guest post on this blog, “Let’s Play Post Office” …
Kev, once again you’ve knocked it out of the friendly confines, somewhere onto Waveland Avenue. Kudos, future Examiner!
*trots off to Twit this post*
;-) 10.27.09 at 2:04 pm:
Well yes, I enjoyed the blog, and I agree with you, 100%.
About the rap career, I hadn’t really thought about it seriously, but in retrospect, it might be a good idea. I already have the lingo down…”holla!”, “o-kayyy!” and “yeaahhh!” Forget the piano/indie singing. Lil’ Jon is my new inspiration.
;-) 10.28.09 at 7:24 am:
yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaah!
that’s my contribution to your rap career Angi. Follow you Lil’ Jon dreasm!
Kev Kev. brilliant. gives a whole new disturbing dimension to the “bad uncle” idea germans came up with… not that the “government” would be actually cutting open your chest and sticking grubby fingers in the corazon area, but let’s be clear, do we really want those people annoying the doctors who would be doing that?
when was the last time you came across people employed by the government who were happy with the level of oversight and excellence brought to bear on their positions by the government overlords anyway?
an i know healthcare costs are high, that it seems impossible to adequately treat everyone who’s sick and that in an economy like this one, it’s conceivable people are looking at paying credit card debt OR paying for their heart medication. But the answer to that is not handing our responsibility for our health over into the government’s hands. America’s ideals were intended to form the foundation of a free society where an unlimited market economy provided the impetus to be responsible and judicious in our lifestyles.
We already have too much intervention to protect people from the consequences of their decisions. We need less of that, not more. Let people rely on their desire for education and betterment rather than excuses and a victim sob-story to get ahead.
Otherwise our country will even more quickly drop in every conceivable standard used to measure success and growth, not to mention liberty and true happiness.