How is cash for clunkers like government health care? This is classic FREE=MORE. Offer the public free and they will take more. Free cash for cars? More cars. The government couldn't even predict how much money to fund it through Labor Day for a 1 month program worth 1 billion no wait, 3 billion dollars. A simple program to give away money for cars couldn't even have an accurate projection over a month.
You don't have to have a big imagination to think how the thought of the government predicting the cost of their health care proposals over 10 years of FREE=MORE will be woefully inadequate. I suspect that a 1 trillion dollar program will actually cost double or triple that once the wheels are in motion. FREE=MORE says it will.
They did it with Iraq. They did it with AIG and Citi and GM. They did it with Bush Stimulus #1, remember, the free money that was supposed to prevent the deep recession we are in now. It didn't do anything but add a quarter of a trillion dollars to the deficit. They are doing it now with Stimulus #2 and certainly, a Stimulus #3 is on the way.
They have done it for the last 50 years with Medicare. The government has proven its inability to spend wisely. You could tax the entire nation 100% and your Senators and Congressmen and women would still find a way to need more money. Because their spending decides whether they have a job at the end of the day.
What we need is an America where the future job prospects of our legislative branch are tied not to how much money they spend, but how much money they don't spend. I heard one of my representatives say a while back that if they don't make a cash grab for the federal money, then other states will and Happy's state will be left in the dust.
This is the mentality that is bankrupting our country. It's no different than the primary medical physicians who are too afraid to opt out of Medicare because they fear all the other doctors around them will take their FREE=MORE patients and they will be left to struggle in a cash only business.
It's no different. FREE=MORE drives the inability of both to survive on the merits of their wisdom and instead find their livelihood dependent on FREE government money to appease the masses.
Read what this Anesthsiologist has to say regarding Cash for Clunkers and government run healthcare. It's spot
