Re: OT Atlas Shrugged.

[Mike <mpmillard@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 26, 1:27=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had
> never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire
> class.
>
> That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one
> would be poor and no one would be rich, a great
> =A0equalizer.
>
> The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class
> on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would
> receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive
> an A.
>
> After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
>
> The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied
> little were happy.
>
> As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had
> studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a
> free ride too so they studied little.
>
> The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
>
> When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
>
> The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all
> resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of
> anyone else.?
>
> All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that
> socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great,
> the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the
> reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
>
> Could not be any simpler than that.

Everybody seems to want to say Socialism is evil, and to be avoided...
But isn't it just as bad to maintain a system that necessarily
provides one group of folks with insurance at the expense of some
other groups?

Since not every citizen "can" work, (see high unemployment and
underemployemnt numbers), any health insurance system based on
employment seems fundamentally flawed to me.
Health care (even if only "basic" healthcare -- whatever that is?) can
certainly be viewed as a right of citizenship.

Doesn't really matter though.  If you run the numbers, the current
system is unsustainable.
It WILL fall eventually.  So the question is, where do you want the
debris to land?

Anyone who believes their precious employer-provided insurance is
sacred is fooling themselves.
You might have less faith in a government provided plan, but probably
not nearly as much as you "should" have in the plan you have now.