by Bill Cavanaugh, Corvallis
I love all of these ads salivating over government health care. Is there a place for it? Absolutely. Should we be taking care of our elders and retirees? Yup! Should we be taking care of our vets? Definitely!
The problem is due to government intervention in the health care system, the cost has gotten way out of control.
The government is involved in college education with its funding and backed government student loans and how is that working out? I’ll tell you… In 40 years, college tuition has increased on average 3,000%! Can you name anything else that has increased that much over that time frame?
Let’s look at another government run debacle…. Social Security. Say you have been contributing $5,000 a year into SS. At 65, you’ll get around $2,000 per month. If you had put that money into an S&P mutual fund, you would be getting $15,000 per month!
Now we have a major disaster in the mountains of North Carolina, with people stranded, no water, no power, limited food, and little to no help from this administration. What have they offered? $750 to each household, and the assurance that FEMA is out of money. Well, why are they out of money, you ask? The Biden-Harris Administration gave $1 billion in FEMA money to help Illegal Immigrants. So the heck with U.S. citizens in need, let’s help out people who have contributed nothing to the system.
The Biden-Harris administration had no problem shipping $250 billion off to Ukraine which has a population of approximately 38 million. Simple math tells me that is $6,500 per person in aid to Ukraine (and some was used to firm up Ukrainian government pensions!).
Fourteen months ago, this administration approved $65 billion for rural broadband internet. This week Elon Musk provided more rural broadband internet to those in need in NC than the government has. This was an easy task given 14 months after the bill was passed, the nationwide internet installations from that bill equals exactly ZERO.
Who did they call when U.S. Astronauts were going to be stranded in space for over a year due to their failure? Elon Musk.
Trump will appoint Elon Musk to head the Department of Efficiency so we don’t continue to throw away money recklessly and I am here for it.
The current government are the same geniuses that pay $10,000 for a toilet seat, so rest assured they have screwed up the medical system.
WMA says
Bill, this is a damn lie:
Well, why are they out of money, you ask? The Biden-Harris Administration gave $1 billion in FEMA money to help Illegal Immigrants.
I just saw a news report on this. The figure you cite is true, but not a dime of that came from FEMA.
Craig Johnson says
you left out the $20 billion to israel………..