Bottom line is, it’s always been easier to spend someone else’ money than one’s own, and our elected representatives in both houses of Congress are getting to be masters of it. After they steal it to begin with.

The one thing the government does best is the military, but even it is subject to massive wastes and massive screw-ups.

And government operation of ANYTHING goes downhill from there at lightspeed. If there wasn’t jail time involved I probably wouldn’t pay my taxes, not because I don’t like paying taxes but because I know 90% of what I pay goes to massive fraud, theft by deception and just pure theft, mostly by bureaucrats that feel their jobs are an entitlement and we regular citizens are more of a pain in the patootie than anything else (besides a cash cow).

The other 10%? Uhhh, who knows? But I do know the Ponzi schemes known as Social Security and Medicare are going to come crashing down on EVERYONE’S head in the not-too-distant future because no one in Congress has the stones to stand up and call previous congresses and bureaucrats thieves and liars.

And at that point, my fear isn’t that the country can’t recover, but that some smooth-talking sleezebucket, say from Chicago or somewhere, will sing siren songs into the ears of gullible voters incapable of figuring out they’re in the process of getting screwed again, and will take over the government lock, stock and fish-tail and make Duh-1 look like a piker. Fearful people do crazy things.

There is no funding for abortions in the bills.

Then you and Speaker Pelosi disagree. You might try re-reading her quote above, then get back to us.

Besides that, the opinion piece you cite does a miserable job of defending its thesis, which is that federal takeover of health care will reduce abortions. And the reason is – don’t laugh – that once the government is in charge of our health care, the costs will be controlled so much better:

One key reason seems to be that all those countries provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.

(Dammit Carlos, I asked you not to laugh!)

Sure. Because we all know the government does such a fantabulous job of controlling the costs of Medicare. And Social Security. And the subprime mortgage market. And every other scheme the left has foisted on us over the past decades.

If the author’s blind faith in efficient and benevolent bureaucracies were not warning signs enough of a mind disconnected from reality, he ignores several other factors that bear on the issue:

First, it is an economic axiom that if you give something away for free, demand for it grows. Having the Feds run the local Planned Parenthood clinic is not going to cause people to suddenly refrain from abortions. Look at last year’s Cash for Clunkers plan. Government subsidies for buying cars caused an massive uptick in purchases. Only a liberal would have been surprised. And predictably, they were.

Second, his comparison of abortion rates with other countries ignores demographic differences. For example, the abortion rate among African-Americans is extremely high and skews the statistics. Factors like that do not affect countries with less diverse populations.

There are other fallacies here, but you get my drift. Anyway, thanks for playing, and we have some lovely parting gifts for you on the way back to your own planet….

Obviously, since the bill can’t stand on its own merits, the leftists (like Mr. Burton above) are mischaracterizing what the bill will and won’t do, when in fact the sole purpose of the entire piece of slime is for the government to take control of that entire segment of our economy.

They just don’t have the stones to stand up and tell the truth, so they obfuscate, pandering to the fears of the masses, and hope no one will notice their naked power grab.

Does the health care delivery system need an overhaul? of course it does. But having a government (whose track record of successfully running anything anywhere except into the ground and into horrendous debt) take over ANY business, large or small, just doesn’t make a lick of sense to anyone but the willingly blind or wickedly cunning.

Nice try, though.

Unfortunately, I’ve also heard some conservatives justify the death penalty with the same logic; that it’s cheaper to execute someone than keep them in prison for another x number of years.

That said, you hear a lot of the former these days and not much of the latter. There were 1.37 million abortions in the U.S. each year, and 52 executions. The death penalty is on it’s way out, but the abortion industry grinds on.

Either way, it’s wrong.

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People have a right to be stupid, but that’s not a god-given, constitutional right that has to be forced upon the rest of us. Funding for their stupidity is theft, pure and simple, and the women who use my stolen money may not be crying all the way to the bank but I know the baby killers are laughing all the way.

Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. what the economists have told us from right to left. There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.

My God! The woman must have fried her brain on mushrooms AND/OR she slipped through to our universe from some alternate universe AND/OR she suffers from pathological liar syndrome!