Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:06:58 AM
You're a little slow on the uptake, aren't ya, hon?
*yawn* Here we go again -
I don't understand the writer or I hate the fact that she's right, so I'll throw dull, unimaginative and false accusations at her to deflect from that. (She's 47 and she singlehandedly brought down GM! She hates unions despite the fact that she worked in downtown Detroit and proudly drove an American car! Let's ignore her family's immigrant history and working class background!)
But since you were nevertheless kind enough to make my point for me (albeit unwittingly - unsurprisingly, given the lack of raw material on that score), I'll spell it out for you.
YOU ARE RIGHT. At least about the part where paying for everyone's health care killed GM. (Though I would argue that that was one of a number of wounds - poorly designed cars, top-heavy bureaucracy - any one of which probably would have been fatal, the sum total of which certainly was.
Paying for everyone's "health care" will - to use your term - be the "coup de grace" for the U.S. government as well. Governments fail, too, Jack honey. Read a little history sometime. And this one's teetering. And then who you gonna elevate your failed business model to? The European Union? The United Federation of Planets?
Your collectivist wet dream has failed everywhere it has been tried. People hate it, and DON'T want it - once they know what it is, which is why foreigners who can come HERE for care (I lived in Detroit, remember? I know all about the Canadians coming over to the Henry Ford and Beaumont Hospitals for care) why your Anointed One has to lie about it, and why it is ALWAYS accompanied by oppressive regulations and regimes.
Want to know what nationalized health care will mean? Ask the
Native Americans.
And while you're at it, if the communized health care system Obama and his Kronies in Kongress want is so great, why don't you ask Congress why they'll be exempt from participating in it?