"We deserve free health care."

I took today's title right off the morning news.

Some nurses are going on strike over their healthcare plan.  Three plans have been offered - Two free and one with 15% co-pay.

Apparently they didn't like any of these.  Their spokesman came on the news and said, "We work hard.  We deserve free health care."

Wait....this just in...."Nothing is free and life isn't fair."

Actually, the things in life that we all want most, are free, for everything else, there's Master Card.   The Free stuff, things like Love, Charity and Compassion are not enough for some of us.

The truth is that I want everything to be free.  Alas...God must hate me because they still make me pay for frozen pizzas at the store.

Even Obama's plan isn't free.  We all pay for it.  It just comes down to should the government tax us and use that money to pay for it or should we pay for it ourselves.  The only problem with paying for it ourselves is that we must absorb the private sector's profit margin.  $10 gets me three aspirin from the government but only two aspirin from the private sector.

Back to the nurses.

I watch on the news as people sympathize with the nurses and I think that is just fine.  But ultimately, we are paying for their health care.  Any cost increase incurred by the hospital will certainly be passed on to the customers.

In my book, a nurse is no more deserving of free healthcare than the guy passing out soup to the poor or a even a superhero (who pays over $1,000 a month for a 30% deductible plan.)

This brings me to the GOP Medicare plan.

Remember when they said Obama's plan had "Death Panels"?  This came from the idea that some people wouldn't get complete care.  For example, a 95 year old drug addict would probably be sent to the bottom of the Liver Donor list.  The Republicans had a fit over the injustice of it.

Now, they plan on giving you a voucher instead of Medicare once you are old.  Once that voucher is used up,  Hasta la Vista baby.  So, try not to get cancer after the age of 65.

This is like saying. "Once you get to a certain age, you get health care up to $15,000 a year.  After that, say your good-byes."

There is no death panel here. This applies to everyone.  Well, except the rich.  They can afford whatever health care they need.

Now, I'm not against this.  Let's just call it what it is - Logan's Run.  That was a movie where your life was over once you reached a certain age.  So, if life ends at 65, then so be it.  It that's the society we want to have, I'll play along.  But everyone has to play.

This would certainly solve a lot of the budget issues.

"Here's your first Social Security check.  Now please step into this booth here."

ZAP!!!

I think that if we had a true understanding of what happened after the ZAP, we would probably go along with this.  It's the unknown that's scary.  Religion tells us we'll go to hell if we don't follow certain doctrine.  I put this in the same realm of likelihood as my winning the lottery without buying a ticket.

I'm not sure what 2012 brings.  Probably nothing.  Maybe UFOs or maybe something really big.  Like the truth about what happens when we die.  Think about it.  This would be big news.  Although Fox News would claim it was Obama propaganda.

"Those angels over there...trick lighting."

The Republican party (aka, Glenn Beck, Rush Linbaugh and Fox News) are already questioning the death of Osama.  "If we really killed him, where are the pictures?"

I can only shake my head.

There is a new name for these guys - Deathers.

I have no more time to waste on them.

I have to save the world, and find free health care.

Up, up and away...

jim

A bit of video showing how Fox can say anything because they know we'll forget.  This is typical O'Reilly fodder.  He states his scripted opinion (Murdock Puppet) as if its a fact and then sits back as if saying, "I said it so it must be true.  I rest my case."  He did this over and over with his Obama interview a few months ago.  He made statements like, "How do you explain you drop in the polls."  This was a truish type question.  He could have been just as truthful by asking, "How do you explain your poll numbers being more than twice as high as George W. Bush's?"  In the No-Spin Zone...it's all about the Spin.

What's in a name?

Okay, is it just me or is Huckabee a weird name for the president?

I know, I know.  The name doesn't matter.  In fact, I feel a little like a Republican for even bringing it up.  It's like "Is that all you got?  You don't like his name?"

Actually, there is a little more.  Every time I see this guy on television, there is some religious reference.  Now, I don't care what he believes in as far as religion goes, but he needs to check that stuff at the door when he starts talking politics.

I don't care if he's Muslim or Catholic or a member of the Church of Fonz (for you Family Guy watchers).  I just don't want his "best guess" at a higher power influencing my life.  This is true for any candidate.

I do have a problem with him throwing his support behind the "Let's make some rich people richer" budget plan of the GOP.

Aside from that, he's a nice enough guy.

So, let's check the lineup:  Trump, Palin, Huckabee, Romney and Bachmann.  This is almost too good to be true.  It's like they took the lineup of Dancing with the Stars and made them all GOP front-runners.

Onward...

Osama may not have been armed.

Don't care.  Some actions basically deprive you of all future access to due process; being a terrorist is one of those.  In fact, I think all terrorists should be buried at sea.  The ultimate "Hasta la Vista Baby."

I saw Romney made a speech about getting Osama.  "We did it!" he claimed.  I had no idea he was even involved.  Whatever...I'm sure he was very brave...at least for the camera.

I got my hands on the agenda for the next GOP strategy meeting.

Noon: Lunch for lobbyists catered by Tiffany's
What we are doing right - discussion
        Got tax break for rich
        Ongoing stifling of any action to create jobs
        Kept George W from going to ground Zero with Obama
What is the bad news - discussion
        Obama got Osama.  Total cost  in lives - 4
        Unemployment dropping
        Out of Afghanistan in July
        No boots in Egypt
        Economy recovering in spite of our best efforts
     
I like the way we went into Pakistan and just took care of business.  We rightly didn't trust the government with any "heads up".

I think that is how we should do a lot of things.  Iran has a "secret" plutonium enrichment site.  This is true, you can see it on YouTube.  We should just swing by with a few dozen bunker-busters and take care of business.

I realize this is a dangerous position to take.  After all, where do you draw the line.  I certainly don't know.

However, I'm fairly certain that I don't want to look at a smoldering Los Angles and hear the sound bite, "We tried to tell them we were going to use sanctions but they nuked us anyway."

This is one of the things I actually like about Trump.  He is so politically inept, he could actually get stuff done.   He has his sites set on bringing down China and I'm telling you this - Someone needs to.  China is a much bigger threat to the United States than a home-bound terrorist on dialysis.

Is it just me or are UFOs becoming more mainstream?  I know a few people that have seen them.  People I actually know.  Why can't I get a look at one.  Shoot, I'm probably never going to be abducted.

It's probably my cape.  That scares a lot of people off.  Aliens are probably steering clear of me like we steer clear of a homeless guy dancing by himself in the park.

Time to get back to work.  (you too Michele).

Up, up and away...

Jim