Competition

Obama made a slip of the tongue last week when he tried to use the United States Postal Service to defend the government option in health care. He said that UPS and FedEx are doing fine. It's the Post Office that is always having problems. Actually the Post Office will be approximately 7 - 10 billion dollars in debt by the end of this year.

We currently have three main sources for healthcare funding in the US: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Two of the three which I mentioned are bankrupt. I'm sure you can figure it out. If the government can't run a nationalized program on a small scale. How will it run it for the whole country without bankrupting the whole country.

I haven't even mentioned other govt failures like Social security and cash for clunkers. I know people may say its the morally right thing to do, but why wait till people get sick? Why not have universal housing? People will get sick if they don't have housing. What about universal clothing and universal food. People will get sick if they don't have proper nourishment.

Obama claims that this is to increase competition. To keep people honest. Thats great if you hold this position throughout. This has little to nothing to do with competition rather than control. If he was really an advocate for competition he would open up the educational system to competition with the school voucher program. When Obama was trying to find a school for his kids, he visited public and private schools and had a few choices.

However, he would deny the rest of us this choice. With the school voucher program, parents who are not happy with their school district could take their tax money and select a school of their choice for their kids. The schools that are underperforming would have to reform or close down. The winners would be the parents because they would have more choices in selecting a school and wouldn't be forced to send their kids to a public school.

Competition is great unless you are owned by the teacher's union and is not politically convenient. This type of hypocrisy can be seen on both sides of the aisle of course. If Obama really cared about competition then he would open up education to competition.