The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775 - you [the government] have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.Read the whole thing here.Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
War on Poverty started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they’re broke
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?
15% of our economy? Are you crazy?
To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Broke
One of Don Surber's readers writes: