Ok, here goes, this one is going to be a little long and I’m not the best writer so please try to follow me here. I think there is a larger point that we conservatives need to get across here. It is what the liberals running this country just don’t seem to get. It involves two main issues. 1. Hatred for major corporations and the rich. 2. Profit motive, aka Capitalism.
First the hatred for major corporations and the rich. If you look at just how many corporations there are in this country and compare that to how many corporate scandals there are you will see that there are really very few dishonest and/or corrupt big businesses. It is a fact that the large and successful businesses are the ones that put out a good product, treat there employees well and are honest and fair. If you had some extra money to invest are you going to look at, say, AIG? I think most people would say no. That is an example of the free market taking care of itself. Just the fact that the media reported the goings on at AIG it has hurt their reputation and bottom line. The ONLY thing we need the government and media to do is let us know when there is a business who is dishonest and/or unfair, and we the people and the free market will take care of it. Every time the government comes in and tries to “fix” things it does nothing but get worse.
This hatred toward the rich is really insane! The best way I can explain this is a few weeks ago I was listening to Air America (painful) and they had a caller bitching about how unfair it is that the rich can afford medical procedures that other people could not. The caller and the hosts went on and on about how unfair it is. I was screaming at the radio “IT WAS THE RICH WHO AT ONE TIME WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD AFFORD MRIs. BECAUSE THEY PAID BIG BUCKS TO GET THEM DONE IS PRECISELY WHY ANYONE CAN GET ONE DONE NOW!” The same thing can be said about chemotherapy and many other, now common, medical procedures. “IT WAS THE RICH WHO PAID UPWARDS OF $15K FOR A FLAT SCREEN TV AND THAT’S WHY WE CAN NOW BUY A NICE ONE FOR AROUND $1K!” There is a stage in the development of any new invention or innovation that I call "The Rich Guy Stage". If it were not for the rich, most great technologies would never make it past the mind of its creator. THANK YOU CAPITALISM!
That brings us to profit motive. We live in THE most prosperous country in the world. We reached that position in just over 200 years! Look at all the other countries in the world who have been around for thousands of years and have never reached the standard of living we have here. Our poor have it a thousand times better than most other countries middle class. Why? FREEDOM! A big part of our freedom is Capitalism. It is the drive for profit (or greed if that’s what you need to call it) that has made this country what it is today. The settlers learned this very soon after landing here. When they first started they had a socialist way of living. If you made blankets, you made them for everybody, and everybody had blankets. Why invent a better way to make blankets? Your going to make one for everybody anyway so what incentive do you have to make them better or faster? The leaders realized that the community was not progressing. What they came up with was a new way of doing things. If you made blankets and sold them for a profit you could keep that profit and in turn you could afford to give your family more. So when you gave your family more, more things needed to be made. When more things needed to be made workers were needed to make more things. Then in turn those workers could give there families more things... And so on. It is this drive for profit that gives people the incentive to create things or find ways to do things better. THIS IS THE MAIN POINT THAT WE CONSERVATIVES NEED TO MAKE WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE. If it is run by the government who does not need to make a profit and will control how much profit can be made ALL INCENTIVE WILL BE DESTROYED TO INVENT NEW TECHNOLOGIES OR MAKE ANYTHING BETTER OR MORE EFFICIENT. Look at lasic eye care. It is not covered by any insurance and not covered by anything our government offers. They must convince people to spend their hard earned money to get it done. Look at how much safer and cheaper it has become in just a few short years! If the government told them how much they would be allowed to charge all that innovation never would have happened. I say, as crazy as it may sound, that if the government ends up running our health care system millions will die. They will die because of all the cures and technologies that will never be developed because the profit motive has been removed from the health care system. Without "The Rich Guy Stage" in the innovation process where the “evil rich” pay for new technologies, they will never be developed. You can bet your ass the government won’t pay big bucks like the rich do to move that process along. If this health care stuff passes it will begin to destroy the very thing that made this country what it is today!
So, fellow Conservatives, when you find someone who supports government run health care and seems willing to listen to reason, explain to them why you and I can purchase a flat screen TV for less than $1K. And explain how it was the rich who paid upwards of $15K that now allow us to do so. Most liberals will catch on to that concept rather quickly. Once they do ask them then who will pay those high prices for the new medical technologies or innovations that have yet to be invented?
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