Living dangerously
Aug 13, 2009, 9:54 AM | Updated: Mar 28, 2011, 3:49 pm
Thursday’s commentary:
Newest angle on the loud health care debate — this is from Politico:
“Some experts say that when you go to a Town Hall meeting and scream and vent your anger, it’s somewhat like taking Speed. You feel instantly energized, confident, and poised.”
It’s like free drugs!
But there’s more than just shouting now: we’re hearing more fundamental issues — like why do I have to pay for other people’s dumb decisions?
“My analogy is kind of along with car insurance. If I’m the guy out there speeding with 10 tickets, my rates go through the roof. But if I’m the guy that does everything, makes the right choices, and don’t bleed the system, I still pay the same damn rate that the guy that does bleed the system.”
Health insurance for everyone means the people who make good choices end up paying for the people who make poor choices.
The perfect people end up paying for the flawed ones — a textbook definition of socialism.
Maybe we just have to admit that life is risky, and you have to deal with it, And in one area we’ve done just that: it came out yesterday that NASA, which is supposed to be tracking dangerous asteroids, never got the money to actually do it.
“There is one asteroid called Apophis that will make a near pass that could be potentially a collision sometime in the 2030’s.”
Which would mean an explosion 10,000 times as powerful as the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima.
“The Earth has been hit in the past. These objects are still out there of large enough scale that if one were to hit Earth it would be fairly devastating for whatever area of Earth it hit.”
But on the bright side, wherever it hit, it would pretty much end the threat of Socialism there.
Now this.
