US Government Business Record
The US Government Post Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke, and even though heavily subsidized, it cannot compete with private sector FedEx and UPS services.
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The US Government Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74
years to get it right; it is broke.
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The US Government backed Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
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The US Government backed Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Together Fannie and Freddie have now led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
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The US Government 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 still hasn't worked.
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The US Government 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.
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The US Government's AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke. Last year the US Government again bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!
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This year, a trillion dollars was committed a the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO sign of working. It has been used to increase the size of government 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.
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The US Government national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
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"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in one month - - after 80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies. This is while dealers nationwide are buried under US Government bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
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So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that each and 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 which represents 17% of our GNP economy?
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Maybe 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 grandchildren's future.