Avon, NY– Took a load from Batavia, NY to Carlisle, PA yesterday, and today, brought one back. Because of what I consider company security, I won’t get into a lot of detail of the problems encountered, but I will say without question it was a full moon.
I’ll post some pics over the weekend.
I note today Dr Krauthammer saying “Everything begins with repeal”. [1]Well, of course.
Suppose someone – say, the president of United States – proposed the following: We are drowning in debt. More than $14 trillion right now. I’ve got a great idea for deficit reduction. It will yield a savings of $230 billion over the next 10 years: We increase spending by $540 billion while we increase taxes by $770 billion.
He’d be laughed out of town. And yet, this is precisely what the Democrats are claiming as a virtue of Obamacare. During the debate over Republican attempts to repeal it [2], one of the Democrats’ major talking points has been that Obamacare reduces the deficit – and therefore repeal raises it – by $230 billion.
That, of course is just one of the little absurdities attached to the huge absurdity called Obamacare.
But, you know, one thing that bothers me greatly about the position the Doctor has been taking on this, is that Obamacare needs to be replaced by some other governmental giveaway program.
This does not absolve the Republicans from producing a health-care replacement. They will and should be judged by how well their alternative addresses the needs of the uninsured and the anxieties of the currently insured.
So it is, that even if repealed, what Obamacare does it hand the left a victory that they couldn’t have obtained without it; They have one of the biggest names in conservative punditry, arguing that a government program is a requirement… that government needs to be involved in healthcare at all. I suggest thisis exactly why Obamacare doesn’t make sense…. it didn’t have to. All it needed to do was exist as law so as to solidify the governmental grip on one seventh of our economy… and leaving the opposition in the position of trying to our give-away the Democrats. It even works when as Krauthammer’s opening paras suggest, we’re well beyond broke, and ANY government program is unsustainable.
Myself, I continue to argue that healthcare costs have skyrocketed in this country in direct and exponential proportion, to the degree of governmental involvement in it. Track the costs of healthcare since 1965, and Johnson’s “great society” spending extravaganzas, until today and you’ll see I’m right.What;s needed then is someone who can articulate and empower the free market economy and explain how that’s supposed to work to a people who for generations have been spoonfed socialism by various governmental giveaways.
And that, I think is going to be the determining factor in the next election…. who can articulate that point, and can do something about it. That’s going to take a lot of things. Mostly courage.
I see a lotta chatter about courage. Michelle Malkin and Melissa Clothier both have tweeted about it just recently.
People, do you want to know what courage is? It’s the simple recognition when action is less costly (Goods, riches, lives and freedoms) than is inaction. That and the strength to act on that information.
As an example: Consider the 17 year old boy… offering a carnation to someone he’s sweet on but has been this far too shy to say anything. Sure, he’s scared to death… of rejection, mostly… but he begins to see that he’d be hurt more if he didn’t act and let her know how he felt, and she got away.
Soldiers, of course, see this equation somewhat more seriously, in that they’re willing to take action, up to and including the loss of their life, because they think not action would be too costly a situation to even consider. And so on.
Hey, Brian? [3] I told you so. [4]
Lots of snow around here today, and tonight. Gotta bundle up. I’ll talk with you tomorrow.