US Socialized Programs Near Bankruptcy -- Obama/Pelosi/Reid Solution: Spend More Money!

Imagine you're eight years old. You're playing a game of tag with your friends in a vacant lot. Unfortunately, the ground is very gravely, and the loose rocks make for a slippery surface. You get a little too enthralled with the game, stop concentrating on balance, lose your footing, and fall, skidding on the gravel.
Your elbows and knees are cut up. The dirt and rocks sticking to the open wounds make make your arms and legs pulse with stinging pain. Thankfully, nothing is broken. But when you stand up, you reevaluate whether such a slippery, gravely surface is the best surface on which to run around.
Ultimately, even though you would have loved to keep running around care free with your buddies, you make the smart decision, cut your losses, and leave the gravel lot to clean up your new scratches and cuts.


U.S. Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) on Tuesday remarked that Social Security will run out of money within two years.

This would have been a good opportunity for proponents of government-run welfare programs to take a step back and reevaluate how much sense similar programs make. After all, Medicare and Medicaid will be following suit with projected deficits soon, and the post office is a consistent losing venture. On the other hand, privately owned healthcare providers turn profits and create jobs every year, and FedEx and UPS are rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar companies.

But did the Obama/Pelosi/Reid team stop to consider whether these programs--as well as proposed new ones--are as prone to failure as an eight year old is to falling while playing tag?
Nope.
They not only disregarded the ominous numbers public programs project, they decided to push healthcare alone, irrespective of Republicans' and private citizens' objections!

There's no doubt that changes need to be made to the healthcare system. But given the track record of bureaucratized programs it makes a lot more sense to ditch the "public option", and figure out a sustainable system that won't bankrupt the country.