“If Washington style answers are the solution, my instinct is that Texans are going to say thanks but no thanks.”
–Governor Rick Perry, Texas
First off, it sounds like someone has been hanging around Palin too much. Thanks, but no thanks? Yes, just like he said “thanks, but no thanks” to stimulus money for our unemployment fund … and then borrowed a whopping chunk of change from the federal government for said depleted unemployment fund. Oh so very typical.
“It is clear Washington has no interest letting states pursue their own tailored solutions to problems that affect our citizens.”
–Governor Rick Perry, Texas
I am still waiting to hear how he intends to solve Texas’ health care problems (which are vast). I imagine it will be by cutting more funding for public programs and knocking a bunch more people and children off the MedicAid/SCHIP rolls. I mean, that’s how he’s tailored his solutions for our health care problems in Texas thus far.
Here are some Texas facts for you:
We’re number 1! We’re number 1! Oh, we’re number 1 in having the most uninsured people in the country. Not much to be proud of, is it? Yes, during the course of Perry’s long reign over Texas, he’s done a slam-bang job of improving our health care system. NOT! Don’t even get me started on how he’s screwed up everything else as well.
His fellow Republican opponent in the race for governor isn’t better:
“If you want to know what healthcare will look like in Texas when I’m governor, think the opposite of what is going through Congress today.”
–Kay Baily Hutchinson, Texas Senator
Seems to me we already have the opposite of what is going through congress today, and as usual, she’s not offering any solutions of her own. The only good thing I can say about her at this point is she’s against toll roads, but that’s not enough to win my vote†.
Footnotes- † Though if it looks like there isn’t a Democrat running in their primaries who I feel I need to give my primary vote to, I will likely be voting for Hutchinson in the Republican primary. I just feel that strongly that I don’t want Perry in office anymore. I will have to hold my nose while I do so. [↩]
Mark Twain was telling us about sociopaths in business and government well over a century ago.
We’re culturally incapable of acting in our own best interest.
Fat, dumb and happy is insurmountable for the majority of humans. The overclass knows what it’s doing.
A perfect example of what happens when businesses aren’t regulated at all is all the horror of the industrial revolution. What with meatpackers losing body parts that went into the meat being sold and women burning to death in unsafe factories and the rampant child labor. Then later the dumping of chemicals and whatnot that made people sick and destroyed the environment. I mean, we KNOW what happens when businesses aren’t told what they can and cannot do. We’ve already been through it.
Profit, as high as possible, is always the bottom line. I can’t believe people don’t realize that if all the safety restrictions and workplace regulations hadn’t been put into place back then businesses wouldn’t still be doing the same crap right now (and some of them actually still are – just ’cause it’s illegal doesn’t mean it doesn’t go on somewhere).