"Cheese it!"

The title from the list entry, "The Clamp!", is again from the show Futurama. This is the "catch phrase" uttered often by one of the members of the "robot mafia". You would recognize the robot mafia buy the fat robot with the mouse necklace and mouse pad around his neck and of course "Clamps" the robot with clamps for hands who is always eager to use his clamps what with his continuous rattling of "the clamps?" followed by "the clamps!!". I guess that's his shtick or something. I tells ya that show is growin' on me. And the constant social security jokes are funny too.

For some reason when blogger decided to change around the interface and "back end" system all my settings got screwed up. So I couldn't publish my entry entitled "The Clamp!" until today when I finally got the stupid settings to work. I was starting to get pissed off and I really really didn't want to switch to another "blog engine" or whatever they call it. But I'm glad I got the damn thing to work. And apparently there's some sort of size limit on the entries now. Which is really annoying. So I'll just divide up my entries, which isn't that much of a problem.

For this entry I would like to discuss economics, socialized medicine, social security and a few people I now file under "people I admirer".

First there's economics. I am starting to enjoy this subject some amount. Economics, believe it or not, is a very fascinating subject that isn't really taught in elementary school or much at all in high school. At least not where I grew up. Of course the schools have been taken over by the liberal-minded, every grade from kindergarten to the university is completely saturated with a liberal bias. But you can hardly have a college without this subject so they have to teach it. In Economics you would learn such things as economics is just basic nature that just happens without any referees or traffic directors so to speak. Example? Lets say you're trying to get home during rush hour and you know the normal surface streets are going to be backed with traffic. But you know a short cut so through some back neighborhood streets. So you're doing something for yourself that will benefit you but if you think about it you're also benefiting the other people on the road that much more. By not taking the normal surface streets you're one less car on the road and the roads are that much lesser backed up. So you've "indirectly" benefited a lot of other people by not taking the surface streets. You see? Companies, by specializing in one area specifically trying to make money are providing needed services and products to the population. The companies are only doing what they're doing to make money, that's the only reason for their existence. Ever heard of a corporation doing something that will not benefit them in any way? I don't think so. So they're making money, you're getting a the needed products and services all via, for lack of a better term, "selfishness". I could go on but I'm probably boring whatever reader I have and I am operating on a stupid character limit here.

Now what about this "socialized medicine"? Or the code euphemism for this, "universal health care" which really does mean the exact same thing. The taxes to pay for such a system are astronomical (while landing a president on an aircraft carrier apparently costs a lot more). Not to mention taking away the freedom to choose your source of health care and the choice of whether or not you even want health care for that matter. When you mandate socailized medicine you take away a lot people's freedoms. Of course you can always look at Canada's system. For some reason that whole series of events leading to Canada's system of socialized medicine isn't very well publicized. But I read about in a book so I will share it. Apparently in the mid-1960s Britain decided they were going to "give" Canada socialized medicine whether the populace wanted it or not by trying to force it on them. The population and doctors of Canada tried to resist but Britain sent in their own doctors to replace the striking doctors and won out over them. So no vote was ever taken, no politician legitimately elected by the people of Canada actually passed as the will of the people. It took Britain FORCING it on Canada. Not all Canadians like the system either. Apparently a lot of Canadians come across the border to use the private American doctors in place of the Canadian ones. This makes sense since all medicine/health care in Canada is "free" so a "queue" forms resulting in many people waiting a really, really long time to get care for much of anything from a bad cough to open-heart surgery.

Now a certain president did try to impose such a system on the U.S. in the early 1990s, often dubbed "Hillary-care". But that time it would have been a little more legitimate in that the representatives of the people would have voted on it but the president didn't bother telling the population or trying to sell it to them or anything like that. He was just trying to pass it without any discussion whatsoever. Fortunately the bill never passed and that party never recovered in the House of Representatives.

Now I would like to rant about Social Security. First of all this is a mandatory program that's taken out of every paycheck whether you want it or not. There is no opt-out (unless you're elected to political office then you're conveniently taken out of the system and put in a privately funded one). So this program takes money from some people and gives it to some other people who may or may not need it. Of course with the baby boom people becoming 65 in a few years I have absolutely no faith that this program will still be there by the time I reach retirement age so this is money that is being taken away from that I will never see again. So the government is stealing from me. That's what I'm saying. Also if you think about it this program is quite racist. For example black people usually start working at a much younger age and usually die at 65 which is the very age they would be eligible to receive social security so essentially the program is exploiting black people's labor to give money to long-living white people. Of course a Democrat passed the program in the 1930s and they do have a history of racism. I have no idea if this was a consideration when the program was originally passed. It's not like anybody predicted a baby boom in the 1930s, right?


And now about those people I admirer. I do actually admirer Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense. Unlike most my age who mention him I am actually not being sarcastic. I really do admirer his absolute straight-forwardness and direct approach to answering questions in issuing statements.

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