Slight Vanity: Dust Yourselves Off, Guys

Yes, that thing that people don’t like to contemplate will always happen. There is not way to stop it. It’s a constant in nature.

That is why the first thing you have to worry about is saving yourself.
For, if you are dead, you are no use when conflict does start.

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

George S. Patton

And you also don’t win a war by dying before the war even starts. Because, when conflict does start it would be preferable if your side outnumbered the enemy.

You needn’t worry about the kentucky doughboy. He just effectively announced his retirement. He’ll wait till next spring/summer to actually announce it of course, but you pretty much got your confirmation.

Watch him spend the next year in office collecting money for his PAC, making lucrative book deals, and getting his office on K street decorated.

It’s expensive because the government got involved in it in the first place.

Get the government out of the business of healthcare, and truly make it market-driven, and the costs will go down.

But that means that the government has to concede some power, can’t have that now, can we?

The problem is, way back then America had lots and lots of manufacturing.

Now, we have sent so much manufacturing to China.

We need to bring back American manufacturing now.

Because there is no other step. American healthcare is an expensive, unreliable mess right now.

I'm wondering if imposing yet *more* govt on the healthcare industry/market as well as the insurance industry/market is the answer. Can we just once try getting govt *out*? Eliminating regulations, quit subsidizing, let the market stand on it's own?

I'm not so sure anyone needs to come up with a different scheme. I'm more comfortable with gaining a majority in both houses and immediately start repealing just about *everything* from FDA regs for food & drugs to eliminating entire agencies from BATFE to Dept of Ed, Energy, Interior, etc. As far as those "marketplace" environments, let them police themselves -- especially Agriculture.

And here's a security/enforcement example: Why do we need the TSA? I know that our society as a whole consists a huge majority of wusses who always look to "someone else" to solve their problems for them, but I can not imagine any scenario where if someone tried something on a plane in today's world, where two or more other passengers wouldn't take care of the problem. I would almost dearly love for some gomer to try something on one of my flights. So, why do we need the TSA?

Don't get me started. I just think we need FAR LESS govt; not more. Of course, other opinions will likely vary.

We are arrived at a point as illustrated by history - that the ONLY recourse left us is going to require that which few to none will even allow themselves to contemplate. But that time is upon us.

Unfortunately, I have to agree. It is not a pleasant thought at all.

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