You know, like the 6 million Jews, 20+ million Poles, 22+ million Russians, possibly hundreds of million Chinese, millions of Africans, and countless others.

Ya, Amerika will be different. Because it just can't happen here. They'd never spray us with experimental biologicals (happened), commit assassinations on our soil (happened), or use bureaucracy to keep us behind bars indefinitely (happens). We don't even force people off their lands and steal their property or homes (happens). Nah. Not here.

This is the Land of the Free. Where you're free to pay over 50% of your income in taxes, free to participate in free speech zones, and free to own land provided you pay the taxes on it and no bureaucrat decides to condemn it so they can give it to Wal-Mart.

Aren't we just lucky? Liberty is all over the place. Just don't cross the fence to look at it too closely.

The VA has always been a joke. It was a joke when my father tried it and it's a joke now when I try it. It's a bureaucratic nightmare. You're better off going to the ER and pretending you don't speak English.

As for the school system, it worked pretty damn well until the fedgov got involved. As for private education, it's pretty cheap. I don't know where you've shopped for it, but private ed here is only about $1200/year per student at a good school. It used to be that religious institutions offered it free of charge to their parishioners, as do our local Catholic and Methodist churches.

Finally, I know what the real problem with health care is. Ask any doctor what his number one expense is in his office. You'll be told it's insurance compliance thanks to Medicare/aid.

Remove that and you cut healthcare costs by 33% right off the bat. Those regulations are, not surprising, GOVERNMENT.

Once again, government doesn't solve problems, it only creates new ones that it can solve later by creating some more problems.

WAKE UP!

How safe do you feel when they're groping you at the airport to get on a plane? Did you know that the TSA let 80%+ of the dummy devices through their “security” in the last audit? That's government for ya.

How about the Department of Homeland (in)Security? This is the largest federal institution to-date and it's done…almost NOTHING. Ya, tons of border security going on (not), plenty of cargo getting checked for bombs and nukes and such (not), etc. About all they've done is beef up security around elected officials. Wow, that really makes YOU and ME safer, doesn't it? At least Hillary and McCain will live through the terrorist's next attack.

Give me a break, Karoli. You're love of big government and all its ineptitude and complete faith that “this time they'll get it right” is astounding. It doesn't take much research to find out all this information either. Most of it appears in daily headlines if you just look.

Not that your publik skewl education taught you to read and learn, of course. Mine sure didn't. I had to do that on my own.

Yet when it comes to health care, you'd rather see a substantial
portion of the population remain uncared for rather than provide
coverage they can afford. The contradiction astounds.

Answer: the same way it does the others: halfassed.

To fix it, we need to get government OUT of it.

Politicians make money by brokering their power with large corporations. Eliminate the ability for them to sell out and you eliminate the problem. The only way to truly do that is to remove government from the whole process.

The Constitution says NOTHING about providing welfare programs, cheap health care, or anything close to that. It doesn't say anything about corporations and politicians being in bed with one another either.

All that's failed miserably is government.

Have a nice day.