Why Not Just Cheat Our Way Out?

Sure enough. All these government-sponsored guarantees are going to break us in the long run. We've bred an entitlement class, and the suckers paying for it just aren't reproducing fast enough for it to remain sustainable.

Over the long term, the CBO said, a projected explosion in government spending outside interest on the debt is “attributable entirely” to the ballooning cost of “Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and (to a lesser extent) insurance subsidies” intended to help finance coverage for the uninsured under President Obama’s new health-care law.

“The health care programs are the main drivers of that growth,” the CBO said, responsible for 80 percent of the projected rise in spending on those programs over the next 25 years.

I suspect, that's what happens when you freely encourage those who can't support their own to continue breeding on the public dollar. Plus, instead of practicing tough love and financially encouraging behavior that might prove healthy in the end, you reward poor health choices. Afterall, it's easier to just cut off a diabetic's leg, or prescribe a pill, than to deny medical care for self-induced illnesses based on personal choice.

But who's really helping the unhealthy? Those who would willingly subsidize someone's bad health (via mandates that the healthy must pay), or those who would use basic common sense on health, encourage better breeding (can't afford 'em, don't have 'em), and a no-nonsense approach to who gets in the ER for "emergency" care, and who is sent home empty-handed. (and empty stomached? Hunger is an awful good motivator, and one of these days, somebody's going to discover the big link between nutritional choices and personal health. Tough love.)

Intentional or not, these policies up the numbers of those who need government help, and discourage those willing to work and play by the rules to get there, not when they look around, and see lesser, unhealthier others just stepping right over them, entitled as they are now with government guarantees.

Fat Baby Mommas With Entitlement Mentalities and Limited Educations. That's my pet peeve. Especially when, as a woman, I'm seen as a lesser myself, just because I haven't popped out a few puppies myself for the government taxpayers to support. Afterall, nothing empowers a woman in dire financial straits with limited opportunities based on a lack of education, than having a brood of her own to control. Especially with the guv'min playing Daddy Provider and taking responsibility for the family's care via guaranteed social programs...