{"id":9940,"date":"2010-03-21T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2010-03-21T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:23:08","slug":"youre-going-to-have-to-jail-me-president-obama-i-might-be-a-sucker-but-i-will-not-be-a-blood-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9940\/youre-going-to-have-to-jail-me-president-obama-i-might-be-a-sucker-but-i-will-not-be-a-blood-sucker\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re going to have to jail me, President Obama: I might be a sucker, but I will not be a blood-sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicked back to the top from last Ocotober. –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
I don’t go to the doctor very often. I don’t get sick much, and, even when I do, I’m not always willing to make time to do anything about it. I work very hard, and all I want to do is work, and I don’t want to have to take time to slow down even when my body really needs to slow down.<\/p>\n

In consequence, I am the perfect stooge for the ObamaCare scheme that Americans seem hell-bent on ramming down each other’s throats. Welfare scams only work when there are people willing to produce wealth long after it has become obvious that working hard is for suckers — when all the clued-in people have already jumped on the gravy train.<\/p>\n

In the case of socialized medicine, the clued-in people will discover more and more things wrong with their health. Why not? It will be people like me — who don’t get sick and who refuse to let illness keep us from working — who will be footing the bill.<\/p>\n

And that’s just the way things are in the welfare-state we have made of this once-free country. Working women defer motherhood so welfare moms can pop out kid after kid, each one endowed at birth with a tax-funded sinecure. Conscientious parents pay twice for their children’s education, once in taxes to pay for useless public schools and once again in tuition for the private schools their children actually attend. If you refuse to live on the dole, you have to save for two retirements: One that you won’t take and one that you will have to guard, night and day, so it won’t be taken from you.<\/p>\n

That’s what we are, by now. Suckers on one side of the room, proud but tight-lipped. And blood-suckers on the other side, belligerent and bellicose, constantly demanding more and more largesse from the stoical, stolid suckers.<\/p>\n

Fine. It is what it is, and nothing is going to change any time soon — except for the worse. But as much as I might be in this mess, as much as I might Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kicked back to the top from last Ocotober. –GSS  I don’t go to the doctor very often. I don’t get sick much, and, even when I do, I’m not always willing to make time to do anything about it. 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