A Real Christmas Gift

President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and other congressional leaders among the Democrats hailed the passage of the Senate health “reform” bill as a Christmas gift to the American people. That’s about the equivalent of trying to convince the chief income earner(s) in a home that the real gift of Christmas for them is the increased balance on the credit card (or the reduced balance of their checking and/or saving’s accounts) rather than the presents they got.

In response to the news that the bill had finally passed my wife had a great idea for a real gift that the Senate could give us for Christmas some year (besides repealing that bill). If they have the authority to mandate that we buy insurance that opens up a world of possibilities. First and foremost her suggestion is that they should mandate that everyone in America should get an answering machine. Just imagine and end to:

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

Ring . . .

The person you are calling is not available. *click*

I’m quite confident that universal telephone answering machines would have a positive impact on interstate commerce.

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5 responses to “A Real Christmas Gift”

  1. Charles D Avatar
    Charles D

    I see that there are a group of progressives and conservatives saying that this bill is unconstitutional – if that’s what we have to do to kill it then let it be so. In the meantime, I want something for Christmas that every one of my representatives in Congress has – I want my own personal collection of 5 lobbyists plying me with gifts, meals, trips and money for the next 2 years. Why should they have all the fun?

    Merry Christmas to you and yours!

    1. David Avatar

      Charles,

      I’m liking that idea – five people who dedicate their energies to thinking up ways to pamper and influence me.

      Merry Christmas to you as well.

  2. Ronald D. Hunt Avatar
    Ronald D. Hunt

    Its fun to see a bipartisan populist uprising, While I don’t think that the health bill will be stopped, I do think it will lead to modifications through a future bill sooner rather then later that improve the bill to something much better(with any luck single payer *hey I can dream*).

    1. David Avatar

      Having bipartisan opposition might help bring about reforms to this atrocity sooner but I would not be surprised if Congress decides to take a break from dealing with anything like this – they’ve probably exhausted their offices already and might wish to deal with tamer issues.

  3. Ronald D. Hunt Avatar
    Ronald D. Hunt

    This isn’t just bipartisan opposition, its populist opposition which well beyond simple bipartisan opposition. We haven’t had a populist uprising sense the 1930’s, and that lead to The New Deal So be careful what your wish for as you just might get it.

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