Letters to the Editor

Viva la revolution!

Published: 11/24/2009
By Chris Walega
Advertisement

So the health insurance companies are so bad, mean and greedy — that’s why we need to overhaul the whole system and adopt a government-run (i.e. socialist) health care system on the (mistaken) premise that everyone has a right to health care. Well, in the spirit of consistency, a lot of people are homeless or live in apartments, which is obviously the fault of mean and greedy banks and realtors. Why not overhaul the whole concept of home ownership and adopt a policy of government-run housing for everyone. It’s only fair, right?

While we’re at it, some people are hungry. Obviously, this is another area where government should be our salvation by implementing mandatory universal food stamps, like supplying people so many tickets per month for say, bread and cheese. I mean, how extremely bankrupt to think that somebody shouldn’t have something unless they have paid for it. It’s time we recognize that every American has the inalienable right to have a car, a cell phone, a computer and clothes for free. Why? Because it’s, uh, like a human right, man.

Yes, we should just head out to the mall, shop our brains out and put it on the government’s tab (i.e., the taxes that are levied on people who work and are

successful).

This wild and mistaken notion that a man has to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow has just got to go. Our glorious and benevolent leaders are leading us into a new vision for America and the whole world. Viva la revolution! Viva la utopia!

1 Comment

The Minnesota Daily wants to host a forum for discussion regarding issues and stories regarding the University of Minnesota and surrounding communities. However, the online comments should not be used to threaten or defame. This is a place for people to be heard, and want to contribute to discussion. Those who persist to use expletives, inappropriate, racist, defamatory or abusive postings risk losing the privilege to post.

To comment, please login.

(1) "Government-run" is not a synonym for "socialist." When the airport security industry was nationalized after 9/11 and put under the control of the TSA, socialists howled blue murder.

(2) The Affordable Health Care for America Act does not aim to produce a "government-run" health care system in any event. There was much debate as to whether the government should even provide the "public option" for health insurance. Socialists would not be quibbling on such small matters; they would be nationalizing all the hospitals, as the manner was in the creation of the U.K.'s National Health Service.