SENATE CANDIDATE BEN SASSE TO MOVE D.C. TO NEBRASKA

#Morning Joe was interesting in as much as it had Joe nodding his head in agreement with their guest #Ben Sasse, Senate candidate from Nebraska. This guy has the eye catching idea to move the U.S. Capitol to Nebraska his home state. Of course, for him, the term ‘government’ is pejorative. The best thing to do is to get rid of it—take it to the dump, which in this case if is #Nebraska—but like all conservatives on this subject he doesn’t believe what he is saying. What he is really saying is that government is great as long as it applies to everyone else but him. As I often say in blogs, the first thing a conservative says if there is something wrong in his or her life is that “there ought to be law” against what ever it is that upsets them at the moment.

This morning Sasse filled my living room with disparaging and grossly misguided remarks about Obamacare but what he said, as the actor in an advertisement for a popular pain medication says, what he said “. . . makes a lot of sense if you don’t stop and think about it”. For example, he tells us we should leave health care in the United States to private enterprise. Maybe if the Nation’s Capital moved to Nebraska, which is close to his home, he would realize private enterprise lobbyists that wrote the only thing that is wrong with Obamacare, which is forcing young health individuals to pay on top of what taxes should pay. The only reason the Affordable Care Act includes private insurance company profits, which is what makes it unaffordable for some, is that they wrote it to make money for insurance companies no matter what but almost by accident, it benefits many, many people, as it is, it is a “new deal” for America.

Sasse’s entire thesis on Obamacare was as naive as it was simple, everyone should pay for their own health care, which is a way of saying he missed the entire point of life in America. We tried “free enterprise” in healthcare and proved beyond any reasonable doubt that it failed miserably. We not only tried it in America but also it was tried or is being tried in virtually every country in the world. The result of all those trials is that developed countries have adopted some form of socialized medicine, which is what we are fighting to do her now. Like all conservatives, they forget about those who cannot pay for their own health care—the Ayn Rand utopia where everyone is happy and healthy and has a money making job and an IQ of over 120. It is so obvious and simple I can only shake my head and wonder how conservatives cannot understand that if you force people to work (destroy unions) for minimum wage you cannot blame them for not having enough money to pay their way in society including pensions, education and  the subject at hand, pay for their own health care insurance.

Conservatives just cannot be that stupid nor are they crazy; they are something else. When Ann Coulter, for examples, says that homeless people should get up from the grates they are sleeping on in the streets of Washington D. C. and “work hard to go to Harvard like she did”, she really does not believe that. They know what they are saying. Sasse knows he is saying that if you cannot afford health care, you may or may not go bankrupt, die, or both; so what, he does not care one way or another. Conservatives complain that Democrats accuse them of being cold, cruel, and heartless and they fight back using such nonsense terms as “compassionate conservatives” to cover up their obvious greed that results in so much cruelty. 

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