A Quick History Lesson

TheU.S. Post Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years toget it right; it is broke, and even though heavily subsidized, it can'tcompete with private sector FedExp and UPS services.

Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.

Together Fannie and Freddie have now led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.

TheWar on Poverty was started in 1964 - they've had 45 years to get itright; $1 trillion of our hard earned money is confiscated each yearand transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.

Medicareand Medicaid were established in 1965 - they've had 44 years to get itright; they are both broke; and now our government dares to mentionthem as models for all US health care.

AMTRAKwas established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; lastyear they bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!

Thisyear, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoffcalled the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows NO sign of working; it'sbeen used to increase the size of governments across America,and raise government salaries while the rest of us suffer from economichardships. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. Ournational debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased400% in the last six months.

"Cashfor Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 – after80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreigncompanies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucraticpaperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what waspromised.

Sowith a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that each andevery "service" shoved down our throats by an over-reaching governmentturns into disaster, how could any informed American trust ourgovernment to run or even set policies for America's health care system – 17% of our economy?

Maybeeach of us has a personal responsibility to let others in on thisbrilliant record before 2010, and help remove from office those who arevoting to destroy capitalism and destroy our grandchildren's future.