The debacle that is Obama Care

First off, spare me the anecdotes. If you are trying to get me convinced that spending a few trillion dollars we dont have is a good idea, telling me the sad sad story of Nancy Joe Osgood, who lost her job and can't get health insurance and is now going to die/lose everything/be severly inconvenienced in some way is not going to get it done. The thing is, in America, everyone's got a story, and it's usually far more complicated than a soundbite or paragraph can tell you. Maybe Nancy Joe is a drunk, maybe she beats her kids, maybe she squandered all her money on bingo. The real question is: is this bill going to help the country or hurt it ? Eye on the ball people.

Secondly, stay on point. Don't run the "poor people need help" stuff. Yes, I know that, thats why there's medicaid, there aren't enough poor people in america to justify spending a trillion bucks on them. you could take a billion, and give 50 grand to every poor person and be down with it. We all need to be a little more willing to do basic math. Like when they tell you a 10 billion dollar jobs bill is to help 4 million people on unemployment get another month extension. 10 billion divided by 4 million is 160,000 per person. for one month. Thats nonsense.

This is all very basic math, Medicare and SSI alone, right now, have mandated 47 trillion dollars in future promised payments. The entire wealth or this nation, every dollar, penny, savings account, stock, bond, asset, everyhting, only comes to 50 trillion. So we have already promised the entire wealth of the entire country for two social programs going forward, and we want to add another one ? Insanity. The needs of the many may outweigh the needs of the few, but unfortunately, the funds of the few aren't nearly enough to cover the needs of the many, its not callous or evil or mean spirited to point this out. We are heading off a fiscal cliff in this country, and all this bill does is put the pedal to the metal.