The swine flu fiasco is a good preview of what national health care would be like.  Misallocation and rationing of vaccine along with acquisition and distribution snafus plague the delivery system.  In Wisconsin campaigning for the Democratic candidate for governor, Obama insists that everything is fine, and that in any case Fox news is to blame.  We should not worry or notice that government is not capable of getting the vaccine to us, the citizens, until after we have gotten the flu. In the meantime, government aristocrats have easy access to H1N1 protection.

If you have problems with business, you can go to government.  Where do you turn when the government runs everything, and you have problems?

The following old-time radio script illustrates what is in store for us all.
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Make no mistake – the rhetoric to which we are being subjected around the country is not an argument over HEALTH CARE.  If it were, the government would merely pay the hospital bills of the indigent.  What the bureaucrats REALLY want is access to insurance premium dollars BEFORE THEY ARE SPENT. For a full-blown public option, this enormous pile of cash would be more than the GDP of Japan.

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For those of you who have never learned to navigate the national bureaucratic mind, we are providing a short guide to politicospeak as a public service.

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One of the problems world citizens have experienced in implementing advanced technology infrastructure is that even simple mathematical and scientific concepts were not in the curriculum of our leaders’ education (oh, so long ago).

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In the 18th century, we the people of the fledgling United States were fodder for the voracious tax appetite of the English Parliament. We were also subject to the capricious will of a sovereign monarch who was not constrained either by precedent or the Rule of Law. Then we had a revolution, followed by almost 240 years of a democratically-elected representative republic anchored by  a seemingly iron clad Constitution.

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One provision of the “financial institution bailout bill” would give the U.S. government an equity position in most major banking organizations in the country.

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In the debate accompanying the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, several of our founding fathers spoke vehemently against the creation of a central (federal) level of government that would have power superior to that wielded by the States.

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This one is really too much. The IRS has received money from Congress to step up its enforcement of tax reporting on IMAGINARY capital gains.

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Amendment XXIX:
Congress shall pass no law encumbering or restricting activities of an individual or group of US citizens that does not also apply equally to Congress itself and each of its members in all particulars, excepting in cases of an adverse effect upon the national security, or that would result in an inability of Congress to carry out other of its constitutionally-mandated duties.