Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Timcast"
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Don't wreck what works for the vast majority of people, to prop up a small segment. If you're liberal and you want to make a change, don't look to government force to solve it. YOU help somebody. As a conservative, that's what I do. And I figure if everybody who likes to virtue-signal and take my money for their compassion got off their ass and helped just one person, we'd solve the homeless problem - for example - one person at a time, without any force. I took in a vision-impaired person, who just needed a safe, quiet place to take classes on Internet skills, as a vision-impairment assistant to website developers (a growth industry).
This isn't a hard case, but it did help a guy who fell through the cracks. Just one. And that's how it works. If you haven't taken anybody in, yourself, then shut your mouth about "living wage." It's going straight from idealism to unintended destruction, which is the calling card of the left. In the cities where the homeless problem is out of control, I see a ton of virtue-signalers and a bunch of mansions occupied by virtue signalers with NO homeless being taken in. No INDIVIDUAL help.
Liberals don't understand human nature and how the world works. How compassion works. They think that career unelected bureaucrats know better than people how to help people. But you make a career out of administering programs that take money from one person to give to another. Bureaucrats don't care if they're efficient, nor do they really care about the people they're helping. They end up screwing both taxpayer and beneficiary. all unintended. But after many years of watching how things actually work, I'm more and more convinced that leftists are either stupid, willfully ignorant or liars.
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Health insurance executives are trapped. The government tells them what they have to cover, and it can change overnight. So they cozy up to the government to stay in business.
Nobody remembers, because it happened so long ago, but health insurance was invented by big corporations as an incentive for prospective employees after Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted wage freezes during the Great Depression (which FDR capitalized on, to consolidate and perpetuate his power). Big corporations offered health and pension benefits.
Before this watershed moment in American history, local charities and benefactors gave to hospitals and built hospitals. The government only makes it SEEM like they're doing a better job than people with actual compassion and charitable instincts. Health care should be a personal and local-community thing, not a slush fund for bureaucrats.
Once the government stepped in, the system because essentially socialist/fascist, with a veneer of private enterprise, but CORRUPT private enterprise, because health care providers had to get in good with the government to stay in business. Inevitably, this led to heavy lobbying of Congress to pass laws that protected insurers and health care providers. The end result? Overpriced, low-quality care.
This is just how government works, or rather, doesn't work. When you make charity compulsory, you destroy the charitable instinct, and nobody feels any responsibility for their neighbor, because they already pay taxes for that sort of thing, and if anybody's falling through the cracks, that's someone else's fault.
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My last visit to a hospital, last spring, was the scariest one yet. Not because of why I was there, but because hospitals have gone full-on bureaucrat, and saving money the way bureaucrats always do: Hire more staff to help the administrators and cut everything else to the bone. Teach nurses NOT to be compassionate. Put doctors into mass production, that is, when they're not filling out reams of paperwork that all the bureaucrats insist is CRUCIAL INFORMATION, until they decide a month later that the don't like the data, so they flush all the work done by everybody under them right down the toilet, while they dream up NEW forms to fill out, in a desperate attempt to feel relevant in an industry to which their only contribution is finding new forms of red tape to cover their own asses with.
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