Health Care Suicide Pact Legislation Passes - An "I Told You So"

[Updated 2/23/2010]

From a recent story  concerning the recently passage of the Health Care Suicide Pact Legislation

".......By then, most Americans will for the first time be required to carry health insurance — either through an employer, through a government program or by buying it for themselves. Those who refuse will face penalties from the IRS. ..."

Yes - And somewhere in these files at the Seneca Times there are posts  asking and answering the rhetorical questions about who really stands to benefit from these changes where everybody is required to buy something. 

I hope some of you out there took my advice and bought stock in the boxcar manufacturing companies. Oops, my bad, I meant the health insurance companies for THAT is who stands to make the money. Well, them and the government machine.

[update] - And looking again at the story itself on the Yahoo news page, I see a sidebar with the following headline

Health law will make calorie counts hard to ignore

Um Hummm,

First comes the requirement of posting of the calorie info at the restaurants,

Next comes the rules that say the restaurant has to report what meals you ate;

Next comes reporting of THAT info and the calorie counts to the government (because after all fatness IS a national emergency and the government has to pay for your illnesses, and your fatness is driving up the cost of health care, right);

Next comes the government regulation that everyone join a gym;

Next comes the requirement that all the gymsreport to the health Czar on how many workout you do a week;

Next comes the penalty or fine for eating too many French Fres and/or not going to the gym enough (call this a fries/gym ratio requirement),

Next comes the government Gestapo showing  up at your door with an arrsest warrant in hand to send you to a government run fat re-education camp;

and lastly comes ........  the Gulag.

All this, of course, a result of having a society that has educated its children to think it is our responsibility to feed starving children in Africa - which of course results in there being more children born in Africa, which of course means we get to do even more "helping".

Powerful - Oh, Really Now

To corrupt thought you must first corrupt the language. Once the language becomes corrupt you can then mainline any drug you want to push.
~ Seneca 2009 AD

You are Powerful?

Because you live in a mud hut, is this how you are powerful?

Because the society in which you live has not, in the 2000 years it has been around, been able to create a societal system such that you can live in something other than a mud hut?

Because your country is ridden by disease, poverty, starvation, warfare, illiteracy, tribal fighting where your brothers and sisters are hacked to death in the still of the night by machetes,
and a host of other things indicative of the very lack of power?

Because you have your picture posted as part of a campaign for others to send you money?

Yeah, Right. You Are "Powerful".

To corrupt thought you must first corrupt the language. Once the language becomes corrupt you can then mainline any drug you want to push.
~ Seneca 2009 AD

The White House Contractor

Three contractors were bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in D.C.; one from Illinois, one from Tennessee and a third from Kentucky. They all went with a White House official to examine the fence.

The Tennessee contractor took out a tape measure and did some measuring, then worked some figures with a pencil. 'Well', he said, 'I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me.'

The Kentucky contractor also did some measuring and figuring, then said, 'I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.'

The Illinois contractor didn't measure or figure, but leaned over to the White House official and whispered, '$2,700.'

The official, incredulously, whispered back, 'You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?'

The Illinois contractor replied, '$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire that guy from Kentucky to fix the fence.''

Done,' replied the government official.

And that, my friends, is how our government works!

From a web circulated email joke seen eslewhere

PS - And don't think that it is just the other guy's "party" that does this sort of thing.