The Post must be running out of sane leftists. This nonsensical ramble is not worth a response, except to point out that there is a difference between spending money on national defense and spending it on entitlement programs. I don’t think the author grasps that.

The old Ragvendor is pumping up Socialism again.

“It truly is unbelievable, how people emphasize healthcare reform or the American Recovery or Reinvestment Act as socialism. I mean if spending tax payers dollars is to be highlighted as an act of socialism, then Medicare, Medicaid to the war in Iraq have to be highlighted in the same bracket.”

You got that right Ragvendor, at least about Medicare and Medicaid but if you don’t want your adopted country to defend you against your wishes, hie your hiney back to the festering pest hole that fostered you.

“It truly is ironical, how majority of our lawmakers agree spending on wars, and yet when it comes to the aspect of spending that money in renewing the future of our country, through spending in education, healthcare and environment, we are divided.”

How very silly! There is no future for our country, including education, healthcare and environment if Hugo Chavez and a small but unruly group machete wielding peons decide to over run our undefended country. Are environmental laws and educated bureaucrats doling out payments for healthcare going to stop them?

Dear Mr. (or is it Ms….I can’t tell) Singh,
There is a world of difference between defending our country and confiscating money from those who work in order to give it to those who don’t/won’t. The first is mandated in the Constitution. The second is not even mentioned. You have read our Constitution, haven’t you?

“There is no future for our country, including education, healthcare and environment if Hugo Chavez and a small but unruly group machete wielding peons decide to over run our undefended country. Are environmental laws and educated bureaucrats doling out payments for healthcare going to stop them?”

Gimme a break. There is no army on this planet that stands a chance against the gun loving nutjobs in this country if they somehow where to get past our national defenses. I know there are militia groups that would absolutely love to put the drills they’ve been practicing for the past 20 years to good use. IF anything takes out this country, it most certainly won’t be military action from another country.

Doubting Thomas, our national defense spending is an entitlement program. Open your eyes buddy.

Singh,

You don’t get it. It’s just fine to hand out hundreds of billions to corporations and banks so that they can give hundreds of millions in FAILURE BONUSES to their executives.

You, on the other hand, expect the government to care about the well-being of the commoners. You are a Marxist!

These people are way above the rest of us. Morals and Character only apply to the little people. It’s their God given right to rob us blind to enrich themselves.

Eisenhower was right..be careful of the military industrial complex. Imagine all the healthcare we could provide for that 1.2 TRILLION dollar boondoggle in Iraq.Better to spend our tax dollars rebuiding Iraq as opposed to rebuilding the good ol” USA(strike up the Lee Greenwood music).

m/m singh, you made 2 mistakes. one was using your real name. Some of the regular commenters suggest that any American who disagrees with them should leave the country and go to Iraq/Mexico/Afghanistan/China. (Remember the good old Vietman war days, “America, Love It or Leave It”) Using a foreign sounding name will really send them over the edge. Second mistake was using the war as an example. Certainly the Iraq war was stupid, unnecessary, and totally unrelated to national security, and even though I understand what you’re saying about the entitlements to the military/industial complex, that reference blinds the commenters to the real substance of your letter, which is the cry of socialism from some when money is spent on helping people. On that point you are absolutely right. It seems to me that the only possible way that one can be alarmed about spending on poor/uninsured/education/environment etc is if one is completely unaware of the incredibly HUGE amounts of money, out tax money, that the government gives to corporations in so many ways. Don’t even count the $700+/- Billion bailout, just add up all the TIF’s, tax breaks, special legal loopholes, cash grants, and on and on. Take a very small example. If you want to open a widget shop, how much help do you think you’ll get from the government? If a widget superstore comes to town the municipality helps them get the land cheap or free, maybe through eminent domain, they get whatever zoning they want, they might get exemptions from real estate taxes and sales taxes, and the state/local government often pays significant portions of development and construction costs. In return they put local stores out of business, hire people at the lowest wage possible with no benefits, and send the profits off to headquarters in another state. The money that government uses to help these corporations means that another budget item must be cut, such as schools or police or fire department, or else taxes have to be raised. Either way, you and I are paying to support that company. The “socialism is coming” crowd rants about illegal aliens coming here to take our jobs, blind to the fact that the real problem is American corporations, with the help of government, sending our jobs overseas because it’s more profitable. It is our corporate socialism that makes special rules so corporations can set up offshore accounts and avoid Billions in taxes that we have to pay instead.

And as for the Iraq war: If we had taken all the money spent in Iraq (180 Kazillion dollars last I heard!) and spent it instead on research for alternative energies, we could sit back and let everybody in the Mideast blow each other up cause we wouldn’t need their oil anymore.

Thomas

Iraq war = National Defense

Even Bush gave up on THAT argument

JimmyRussell:

“Gimme a break. There is no army on this planet that stands a chance against the gun loving nutjobs in this country if they somehow where to get past our national defenses. I know there are militia groups that would absolutely love to put the drills they’ve been practicing for the past 20 years to good use. IF anything takes out this country, it most certainly won’t be military action from another country.”

If the military was disbanded in favor of nanny teat, how long would it take you to be bussing the posteriors of “the gun loving nutjobs” protecting your hateful hiney?

Once again…health care is not a “right,” it’s a priviledge! Where do the entitlements end in this country? Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Post Office…all of these government agencies are in deep financial trouble because they are poorly run and the top jobs in each organization go to “preferred” people - not the most qualified. The problem with our country is that many people don’t take responsibility for his or her own actions and choose to not purchase health insurance because they’d rather spend that $400 per month at the Casino playing slots. The prevailing attitude is (I want free health care)…What the moronic left doesn’t understand about Nationalized Health Care is it’s not FREE. It will only be free for the people who don’t work and illegal aliens. For all “working people” making $20,000 per year and more, there will be a massive tax increase to pay for the equivilent of VA Hospital care. So, in the long run, you are basically going to be paying thousands of dollars more in taxes per year to let the government decide what procedures you can have performed, and they will also dictate when it’s your time to “just take pain medicine and pass on”. F**k that!
Great Britain, France, Sweden, Canada, and countless other countries with a nationalized health care system pay upwards of 60% income tax for a system that is plagued with long waiting lists for surgeries and doctor appointments, sub par medical care, B list doctors, and government intrusion/dictation of what medical conditions are deemed necessary.

If you are elderly and have health problems now, you should be screaming from the