Between Nancy Pelosi and National Public Radio and what they talk about I could have ideas for this blog on a continuing basis, daily, forever. On Wednesday Ms. Pelosi discussed the off-year elections that took place on Tuesday, elections where Republicans won the Governorships in New Jersey and Virginia. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and Democrat, said that the democrats won the Congressional seat in upstate New York and were therefore victorious overall with a mandate for a government run health care system. In the upstate New York race 100,000 people voted. In Virginia and New Jersey more than 70 million people voted.
On National Public Radio this morning, a station that is supported by tax dollars (I like to remind people of that at every opportunity), their expert on how to fix the current economy didn’t talk about lowering taxes, or easing rules and restrictions that are preventing companies in this country from competing in the global marketplace, it was to “move away from an economy that counts on consumer spending.” Really. I am not kidding. The ‘expert’s’ advice – “count on exports.” Aren’t the people that you are exporting to consumers?
So I have two really good topics to write opinion on: Nancy and the limited powers of the federal government (the tenth amendment to the Bill of Rights) or the basic economic idea of supply and demand. Actually let’s merge them both into one blog: The power of the government versus the power of the people.
Nancy, are you listening? Pay attention because we are going to talk health care, freedom of choice, and supply and demand. Supply and demand are basic economic terms for how people behave VOLUNTARILY in free markets, whether at the grocery store, traveling on an airplane, purchasing a home or PURCHASING HEALTH CARE. Those who believe big government can cure all ills (sorry I couldn’t resist) by dictating what they believe is best for all of us is wrong thinking. There are no examples where government run health care has worked. Give me an example, Nancy. Individual states have gone bankrupt and individual countries that attempted to provide universal health care find they are faced with the need for rationing and the service that they do provide is sub-standard. Thousands of people travel to these United States for the best health care in the world, and fill prescriptions for drugs created by companies that are working directly off the theory that if there is a demand they will find a way to supply the product.
Nancy and the rest of our government want to dismantle our current system giving more than 20% of our economy over to the same government that tries to deliver mail, run Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, create Ponzi schemes in the form os Social Security and Medicare, and run the Veterans Administration, where they are only 400,000 cases behind. The farm program? Almost left out Amtrak! In every instance when the government in this country attempts to prohibit basic liberties of the people the consequences are often surprising, always costly, and sometimes tragic.
Washington, D.C. is always touting the Canadian health care system. As of 2003 the average wait to see an eye doctor is 22 weeks, a gynecologist 13 weeks, a general surgeon 9 weeks, a doctor specializing in cardiovascular issues 18 weeks, an orthopedic specialist 25 weeks, and a neurosurgeon 17 weeks. No wonder so many Canadians are coming to this country for health care. Conditions have become so bad in Canada that some provincial governments have begun shipping heart bypass patients and cancer patients needing radiation treatments over the Canadian border to the U.S. to receive treatment. 65% of Canadians now purchase private health insurance, turning away from what the government is giving away for free.
On National Public Radio this morning, a station that is supported by tax dollars (I like to remind people of that at every opportunity), their expert on how to fix the current economy didn’t talk about lowering taxes, or easing rules and restrictions that are preventing companies in this country from competing in the global marketplace, it was to “move away from an economy that counts on consumer spending.” Really. I am not kidding. The ‘expert’s’ advice – “count on exports.” Aren’t the people that you are exporting to consumers?
So I have two really good topics to write opinion on: Nancy and the limited powers of the federal government (the tenth amendment to the Bill of Rights) or the basic economic idea of supply and demand. Actually let’s merge them both into one blog: The power of the government versus the power of the people.
Nancy, are you listening? Pay attention because we are going to talk health care, freedom of choice, and supply and demand. Supply and demand are basic economic terms for how people behave VOLUNTARILY in free markets, whether at the grocery store, traveling on an airplane, purchasing a home or PURCHASING HEALTH CARE. Those who believe big government can cure all ills (sorry I couldn’t resist) by dictating what they believe is best for all of us is wrong thinking. There are no examples where government run health care has worked. Give me an example, Nancy. Individual states have gone bankrupt and individual countries that attempted to provide universal health care find they are faced with the need for rationing and the service that they do provide is sub-standard. Thousands of people travel to these United States for the best health care in the world, and fill prescriptions for drugs created by companies that are working directly off the theory that if there is a demand they will find a way to supply the product.
Nancy and the rest of our government want to dismantle our current system giving more than 20% of our economy over to the same government that tries to deliver mail, run Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, create Ponzi schemes in the form os Social Security and Medicare, and run the Veterans Administration, where they are only 400,000 cases behind. The farm program? Almost left out Amtrak! In every instance when the government in this country attempts to prohibit basic liberties of the people the consequences are often surprising, always costly, and sometimes tragic.
Washington, D.C. is always touting the Canadian health care system. As of 2003 the average wait to see an eye doctor is 22 weeks, a gynecologist 13 weeks, a general surgeon 9 weeks, a doctor specializing in cardiovascular issues 18 weeks, an orthopedic specialist 25 weeks, and a neurosurgeon 17 weeks. No wonder so many Canadians are coming to this country for health care. Conditions have become so bad in Canada that some provincial governments have begun shipping heart bypass patients and cancer patients needing radiation treatments over the Canadian border to the U.S. to receive treatment. 65% of Canadians now purchase private health insurance, turning away from what the government is giving away for free.
Nancy, you need to start thinking outside the box. First you might want to take a look at the tenth amendment to the Constitution about the limited powers of the Federal government, and then you might want to look at your own polling numbers within your own district within your own state. We the people, Democrat, Republican and Independent, are single minded in one thing; together we know we are all Americans, and we want the liberty and freedom that goes along with living in such a glorious country. The election in New Jersey proves one thing, the desire for political freedom and absence of interference from the government in our lives crosses party lines.
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