Amid all the fervor surrounding Bush's veto of SCHIP, I've found that I can relate to the plight of those families who can't afford to care for their children.
For years, I've wanted a Corvette Z06. I know I won't be able to afford the payment or the insurance, but I really want one. I know I'm not alone in this. I dare say countless of Americans want Corvettes. This is why I'll be supporting the SBMACP: the Supplemental Buy Me A Corvette Program.
It's so simple. You fill out the form and if you qualify, Uncle Sam will buy you a Corvette. Go ahead and live outside your means! Uncle Sam will pick up the tab!
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How can we all get along equally until we all have Corvettes?
Clearly the liberal response to this idea would be "but children don't need corvettes to survive; they need healthcare. All human beings should be entitled to good healthcare, it should be a human right, etc..."
To suggest that health coverage is more vital to one's well being than corvette ownership is undeniable. You won't get any argument from me there.
But here's where you will get an argument from me: the notion that simply declaring something an entitlement will guarantee its existence is fallacious and almost always ends up depriving the population of the good or service it seeks to entitle them to. By making a material good an entitlement, you in effect are attempting to abolish markets in favor of the dead hand of bureaucracy, which stifles any and all incentives to produce it.
A classic example was food in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks, who sought to destroy the "chaos" of free markets, declared food a public entitlement and a right. Seems logical, right? Clearly something so vital to our survival and well-being as food should be entitled to everyone instead of left to the unruly forces of the market, right?
So, following this premise, the Soviets took over all supermarkets in Russia. Prices were abolished. Private property and profit taking became criminal offenses. And as a result, customers faced empty food shelves and had to live with rationing. Millions starved to death.
In the United States, despite food stamp programs, we haven't made the provision of food an outright government-run entitlement for all. Yet, there are supermarkets everywhere you look. No one is starving. In fact, on average, most of our "poor" are obese because they are far too well-fed. Every time we walk into a Publix or Super Wal-Mart we are faced with literally thousands of choices of which products to buy. In America, people don't bitch about not having enough food to eat; instead, they bitch about all the choices they have to make (Ugh!! which brand of dog food flavoring should I buy for Rocky?!?! I can't decide!!!) from the vast abundance of goods that capitalism creates for us.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, contrary to what our liberal friends argue, healthcare, like food, is far too important and vital a good to declared an entitlement and left to the unruly forces of bureaucracy. The same goes for education.
Ya know how I know you're a socialist?
This bill is the first of three conversations that leads to coming out of the socialist closet.
First, it's like, "oh, hey, let's give children medicine, da durka durr, our future durr."
Then, about a year later, it's like, "oh, hey, yeah let's go ahead and give the healthcare to everyone now, and save the world durka durk durr."
Then, a year after that it's just like, "ok, nobody owns anything now. we're just, i mean, we're just straight up socialists now."
It's a little late, but what I was getting at with this post is that I didn't buy a Corvette because I can't afford to insure or maintain it. People should apply this logic to having children.
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