Fantasy vs. reality
The next election isn't for months, but the mailman is currently delivering porn about elections far in the future. Over the weekend, we got this one:
There was one of those little envelopes inside, asking for money. But they don't seem too strapped for cash if they can afford to print and mail this thing. It's six pages of glossy 6-by-10½-inch pure come-on, on card stock.
Health care for all. It sounds so wonderful, in concept. But what would this version really look like? It would be another one of those "we-know-better-than-everyone-else" Oregon deals, like decriminalizing hard street drugs.
It's bad enough that with public health care, going to the doctor is going to feel like going through the TSA line at the airport. But the Oregon version would be particularly bad, run by the "toxic" people at the inept Oregon Health Authority. And your health would depend on the state computer system, which fails way too often.
Not to mention that this would attract even more badly troubled people to settle in Portland. We already have enough trouble as the Fentanyl Lifestyle Capital of the World®.
And so no, Valdez Bravo, old pal (what a name), I won't be joining you today, or any day. Love the cutesy signature, though. It shows how important you are.
Bravo! Bravo! Now go take a flying f... at the Moon!
ReplyDeleteNow, now.
DeleteThe handwriting is off the wall.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the Oregon Health Plan now, after a lifetime of being on private insurance. I get far, far better care and better service through OHP than I ever did with private insurance. That's not ideology. Just my experience.
ReplyDeleteIt’s, coming along with an increase in state income taxes, of course!
ReplyDeletehttps://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021I1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/257230
Do I understand this correctly to be proposing a new payroll tax (of 10.5%) AND a house-hold level income tax of up to 8.2%?! This is insanity.
DeleteYou are correct.
DeleteThat “signature”! Ok you shrinks out there…analysis please.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he can print or write cursive at all…?
"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State"
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Freud would think of that signature.
ReplyDeleteI am fine with getting back some of my taxes in the form of payment for medical services. BUT I want to choose who I go to and how I spend that money- which will never happen with .gov standing in the middle. PLUS I want people that do not take care of themselves to pay more into the system. Obesity is extremely costly and totally preventable. Addictive behavior is a close second- if you're doing everything you can to get to an early grave, cough, cough it up. ALAS, that will never happen with the snowflakes giving everyone a participation trophy and pretending it's not your fault for the actions you take.
ReplyDeleteSo, higher premiums for gun owners, liquor and tobacco users then?
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