When I was in college, a history professor explained the value of history through this parable:
An eskimo couple married, and one of their elderly grandmothers was living with them. She was very old and her teeth started falling out, making it impossible for her to eat anything. As was the custom, the younger couple wished her well, then put her on an ice floe and shipped her off to sea.
So then the young couple had a baby. It had no teeth. It couldn't eat -- certainly couldn't chew on whale blubber. So they put the baby on an ice floe and shipped if off to sea.
So here's the thing: although nearly every nation in the west has toyed with socialized medicine, they still haven't seemed to learn the lessons to be had from it. Like in Canada -- where it's on its way out just through practice and bending the original rules to make it work, bending into a semi-capitalist operation. Same in France, where people have to pay more and more co-pays and such, for just about every medical service, to keep their "free" system. Many other nations have found that socialized medicine has mainly inspired a huge black market for health care. Etc etc.
And what I find funny -- over the last couple days, one or another Republican criticized the dems for blowing off Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal without coming up with a viable alternative.
But the dems do have a viable alternative -- Obamacare cuts $500 million from Medicare to pay, apparently, for the sports injuries and careless self-abuse perpetrated by the young.
So basically, the Obamacare solution -- through the Death Panels -- puts the elderly on an ice floe and ships them off to sea. I mean, they have nothing to contribute anymore, right?
And the toothless young -- through their ignorance and sense of invincibility -- will be next.
That's it in a nutshell.
Save the Republic.
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