It is scary enough the waste that goes along with some of the beauruecratic nightmares that have come from the grandest and noblest ideas.  Welfare is a good example.  It was meant to be a “hand up” not a hand out.  And four or five generations later it is finally heading in the intended direction.  Have you ever heard the stories about outrageous military spending, think about what a hospital system could do with that kind of extra padding.  And while you are thinking of misuse and abuse think about how often some people go to the Emergency Room as their primary care physician, because they do not see or feel the costs of the trip.  Hell, it’s covered by either insurance or Medicaid.  I could go on and on about how illegal immigrants are ruining our health care system.

            The problem is that when it comes to “Health Care Reform”, or reforming anything, the United States Government is not known for reform.  They may change the finances of the health care system, or rather the financing of health care. 

            When you look at the way our health care is financed today, and yes we do finance our own health care, we generally use an employer funded health care plan.  I say employer funded because when you really look at the percentage paid by you the employee it is generally no where near 100%.  If you do not pay 100% then you are financing a portion of your health care insurance premiums.  Kind of like the way our parents looked at retirement.  I know that my Grandpa thought that Social Security was going to be enough, and it was not.  Thank God he did not count on the Government alone.  I watch my Dad starting to go through some of the same things as Grandpa did 15-20 years ago.  The dollar amounts may be close to the same, but the dollars don’t go nearly as far as they did back then.  The Government cannot keep up with the cost of living.  It continues to cost more every year to just get by, we may not be paying more payroll taxes but our taxes continue to increase in the debit column.

            The fact that it will never work as promised is not the crux of the issue though.  What we really need to focus on is the end point.  Ok, I will concede that if I were to get cancer of the brain I could never afford the caliber of doctors or care that Bill Gates or Rush Limbaugh can.  And that has nothing to do with how hard they actually have worked over the course of their lives.  They did pay their dues with blood sweat and tears like everyone else does; the big difference is that they came up with an idea at the right time and were able to turn that idea into dollars.  God Bless the USA.  You won’t find this type of story in Cuba, Canada, or anywhere in the Middle East.

            Here is where you actually have to stop and think about where this road will end up leading us.  I mean where does it end.  When do we expect people to actually work for what they earn not what can we give them.  Why don’t we have socialized auto insurance?  Most states have made it mandatory to have a valid insurance card to prove that you have coverage while you are driving.  If it is mandatory why doesn’t the Federal Government provide it for us like they propose to do with our health care system isn’t it?  How about car maintenance?  Is it really fair that some of us in America, the haves, are able to properly maintain their cars?  Why should the poor be stuck driving 15 year old cars while the rich putt around in band new Lexus’ and Bentleys’?  You can even go as far as to say that if we give so much of our taxpayer’s dollars to poor countries, and spend so much to defeat Al Quada in Iraq and other places in the world we can afford to spend three to four hundred thousand every few years so our impoverished can drive in style.   What about where we live?  Have you every seen a picture of the palace that Bill Gates lives in?  Just him, his wife and a couple of kids live in that giant house, if you can call that behemoth a house.  Ooops almost forgot about the property that surrounds the house as well.  Most of our major cities police forces cannot keep the gangbangers out of the parks in our poorer neighborhoods.  You know what; we should all be given places just as big and grand as his. 

            Yes, that last paragraph sounds kind of goofy doesn’t it?  But isn’t that basically what Hillary Care is all about?  It even runs into the mantra of “Two Americas” doesn’t it?  It also sounds very similar to the writings and teachings of Lennon and Marx.  No one should have to earn anything!  Everyone gets what they need!  It is especially enticing when someone else is footing the bill.  The question that needs to be answered then is; who will be footing that bill?  I think the answer is apparent to most of us who are over the age of thirty five.  No one.  Why work hard to get ahead when all of your production is going to keep someone else afloat? 

Look at what has gone in Russia over the past century.  They espoused the same philosophy that those on the left are standing behind today.  Scary isn’t it? 

Then why are so many Americans defending these positions?  I would only be guessing when I say because we as Americans have gone soft.  We do more today to feel good about ourselves than we ever have.  Not that Americans don’t have enough to feel good about, because we do more than our share globally.  Think back to the major earthquakes in Iran while we were fighting a Global War on Terror, and rendering humanitarian aid to the tsunami victims, and trying to fix New Orleans here at home.  I don’t remember any other nation helping so many people at the same time in recorded history.  And above all of that when we sent in equipment and supplies into Iran they were not even friends of ours.  What have they done for us over the past thirty years?  Well besides working against us in the United Nations and taking our Embassy Staff hostage for almost a year and a half.  We even pay more than our share of the worlds bills through the United Nations to get things done that go directly against our own national interests.  Maybe that is the problem; the American left is promoting Global Class Envy. 

We are not the old Soviet Union.  We are not Cuba.  We aren’t even France.  And we do not want to emulate any of them.  They want to emulate us, they just cannot until they get the mindset that we had 100 years ago.  Not even we can boom like we did 100 years ago if we don’t get back to the way of thinking that made us what we are, for now anyway.  The Greatest Nation in recorded history.