Government bats 100%

The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years
to get it right; it is broke, and even though heavily subsidized, it
can't compete with private sector FedEx and UPS services.

Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get
it right; it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've had 71 years to get it
right; it is broke. 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.

The 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 hasn't worked.

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.

AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right;
last year they bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!

This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political
payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO sign of working;
it's been used to increase the size of governments 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. Our
national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased
400% in the last six months.


"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 - -
after 80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign
companies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucratic
paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what
was promised.

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 - - 17% of our economy?