by Rick Lowe (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)
A friend sent this great e-mail today.
I know this is the US government, but compare this to the approximately 179 government agencies and departments etc in the blue pages in the Bahamas phone book and I'm sure we'll find a few to match these:
Government Management
The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775 – they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke, and even though heavily subsidized, it still can't compete with private sector FedEx and UPS services.
Social Security was established in 1935 – they've had 74 years to get it right; it is going broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 – they've had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 – they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Together Fannie and Freddie have led the world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
The War on Poverty was started in 1964 – they've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our hard earned money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 – they've had 44 years to get it right; they are both broke; and now our government dares to mention them as models for all US health care.
AMTRAK was established in 1970 – they've had 39 years to get it right; last year they again bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows little sign of working; it's been used to increase the size of governments across America, and raise government salaries while the rest of us suffer from economic hardships. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. Our national debt projections (keep increasing and now are approaching $10 trillion) have increased nearly 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 – 80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
So with a such a failure rate and a record that proves that almost every "service" shoved down our throats by an over-reaching government turns into disaster, how could any informed American trust our government to run or even set policies for America's health care system – - 17% of our economy?
Each of us has a personal responsibility to let others in on this brilliant record before 2010, and then help remove from office those who are voting to destroy capitalism and destroy our grand children's future.
