Of Buckets And Lies and Buckets Of IOU’s
Pardon me for being a skeptic. Now that congress has drained the bucket that was supposed to be holding all of our Social Security contributions, you will excuse me if I don’t want to trust them with another bucket called National Health Care.
Maybe one of them could step up and point out for me an example of an efficiently run Government program or agency that has operated as promised, on time and within budget.
How about the Post Office? It lost Seven Billion Dollars last year. Maybe Amtrak – but no, we keep pouring Billions of taxpayer dollars into it and it keeps losing money. These are but two of many examples.
Maybe we could have Health Care run by our military. They are not typically efficient but they are effective if you don’t mind killing ants with a Four Hundred Dollar sledgehammer.
Could it be that Congress and the Administration is trying to create another bucket called National Health Care that we taxpayers can pour money into. A bucket that they can dip money from. Money they can pay out to favored groups (ACORN is a good exapmple) and individuals so they can keep getting re-elected and stay in power.
And someday, we will find that this bucket too has been filled with IOU’s payable in hyper-inflated dollars borrowed from the Chinese. Dollars that are now worthless because of Congress’ lack of fiscal discipline.
Why do people who lie to you and mismanage your money seem so surprised when you no longer trust or believe them?
Bob Bandy
