Quote of the day

I am pretty sure that we can get a new reality show spin-off from the Obama Administration.

Dancing with the Czars.

Mind you there are still a LOT of empty seats underneath the various missing top people in the Administration. Has Geithner found anyone to step into the coming buzz-saw at Treasury, yet? And given how bad TARP, the porkapalooza stimulus, home mortgage system, cash 4 clunkers, etc. have not been working, who in their right mind would volunteer to go to Treasury?

This does point out the problem of trying to run the economy with government intervention: it puts the keys to the kingdom in the hands of the few and unaccountable. And, yes, the swings of the 19th century were bad, but the country never had a Great Depression without federal intervention. Ditto turning a short recession into something worse… if most of the rest of the world is out of the recession and only those countries with ‘activist’ governments are still in it (US, UK, Italy) then there might be a problem to this ‘public spending’ to curb a recession concept.

Say, if the health care system is so ‘broken’ then how does making it bigger with the same problems ‘fix it’? And the ‘public’ option works in countries like Switzerland, but they have universal military conscription, too, so they are treating vets. Germany is trying to bail out a massive portion of its middle and upper class from the public system and won’t show its cards on the satisfaction levels of the public there who DON’T have continuous care from a few doctors but switch lines and get whoever is available… and their medical history is not known in depth by any of them. France has the problem of the AUG vacation getting people killed when the doctors and staff are at the beach. Canada sends people to the US for quick treatments. The UK is into rationing and expecting folks who make enough money to get private insurance to get better treatment…

Note that last. You pay for everyone via taxes. The wealthy are told to get insurance. The poor get rationed services, poorer care, and less care. In America you may go broke getting care but you can GET THE CARE in a timely and expedient fashion by doctors that actually know you and your problems. A quick read of a chart doesn’t do that. Knowing you does that.

But then this Administration doesn’t seem to have much of anyone who knows a damned thing about the health care industry in it. I would prefer that the President, VP, SCOTUS and all members of Congress get VA care. And not be allowed any private insurance, so Congress could understand what the problem of ‘public health care’ actually IS. But this Administration can’t ‘fix’ Medicare, can’t ‘fix’ the VA, can’t ‘fix’ the economy, can’t ‘fix’ GM and Chrysler, and can’t even run a used car trade-in system efficiently. At this rate the Administration could hire used car salesmen to staff all the vacant positions to get a bump up in the level of trustworthiness and competence.

ajacksonian on August 24, 2009 at 7:35 AM