(Category: Half-baked Idea)

Thanks to John Hawkins, at www.rightwingnews.com, I discovered this little "poem" at the Daily Kos.  Mr. Hawkins provided some good commentary, but I thought it deserved a little more.  The reason?  This "poem" (if one can call such a piece of garbled trash with no rhyme or meter a poem) is a perfect snapshot of the modern Left.

Everything about it, from the juvenile way it is written, with many incoherent statements and grammatical errors, to the ridiculous demands for violence and un-civil protest, reeks of the utter state of immaturity and childish thinking which dominates the Left.

Note also how the author says that his poem is "dedicated to the real patriots of America," and not a page later refers to America as "Amerikkka."  I guess I'm not using the same definition of the word "patriotism" as this fellow is.  See, I thought patriotism was loving your country.  Apparently I have it backwards.  For comparison, let's say I wanted to prove that I was not a racist, and so I said, "I really like black people" and then 3 sentences later referred to black people in general as "dirty n****ers."  You would, I hope, come to question my non-racism.  Patriotism doesn't just mean loving some fantasy image of your country as a socialist paradise.  It means loving your country as it is.  There are many things I dislike about America, but all of them together are not enough to stop me from loving it all the same.

Seriously, though, the poem is laugh-out-loud funny, thanks to its utter stupidity.  But after reading it a few times (mostly for the sake of this post), my only impulse is to bury my face in my hands and wonder how this happens to people.  Let's observe the author's demands, towards the bottom.  Specifically, I want to analyze the demands for "Free Education For Everyone!" and "Free Healthcare For Everyone!"

Does this person live on Earth?  What sort of disease of the mind could possibly lead one to believe that education and healthcare can simply be gotten for free, no strings attached?  The assumption is that the only reason healthcare and education cost anything at all is that people are greedy and mean.  Of course, the real reason healthcare and education cost anything is the same reason anything costs anything: that there is not an unlimited amount of the good or service demanded.  If healthcare required no skills, time, or other resources to provide, it would be free.  But healthcare does require rare skills, often a great deal of time, and plenty of resources, and none of those things exist in infinite abundance.  Whatever monetary limit congress sets on the "price" of healthcare, it will not change the underlying fact that the resources needed for it are not infinite, and therefore we have to find some way of rationing out the limited supply of healthcare to a vastly greater demand for it.  Without money, some other means of rationing would have to come into effect.  Perhaps it would happen at random.  Maybe you would need to know the right doctors or the right bureaucrats.  You could do it like Great Britain does and just have people bribe doctors under the table for expedited service.  The point is, congress cannot change the fact that there is not enough to go around.  That's called "reality," for you liberals out there.  Come and join us here, for a while.  Thank God our capitalist system lets us use our money to decide how much or how little we need of something like healthcare by how much money we are willing to pay for it, rather than having some haughty politician take the choice out of our hands and use our own money for us, whether we want what they're going to use it for or not.

The only thing you get in this world for free is forgiveness.  The rest you have to pay for, some way or another.