There’s an old joke about socialism that goes if the socialists took over the Sahara desert today, there’d be a shortage of sand tomorrow. Socialism has never worked anywhere — ever.
It is perhaps the worst invention of mankind, having killed more people, destroyed more cultures and ruined more economies over the last century than all the wars of that same period combined. It is the plague of political ideologies.
And yet we continue to come back to it. It’s like we just manage to get all the evils of Pandora’s box stuffed back in when someone comes along thinking he’s smarter than everyone else and flips the lid again.
Medicare is a mess. It is going broke. In fact, it is broke. It is kept alive by shifting a good portion of its costs to private insurance. Everyone who pays for their own private insurance in this country subsidizes Medicare.
They also support fraud! Somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of Medicare’s expenditures are eaten up by fraud. That would be between $40 and $80 billion a year!
And now we plan to heave this tragic comedy onto the rest of medicine. Ask yourself this: How will this new mega-Medicare survive when there is no private medical insurance to support it?
Medicare at present spends something like $400 billion a year. If you took all of the money of all the richest people in this country, you could run Medicare for maybe a couple of years. Then what?
Apparently, medical care is just too important to be left in the hands of the private world. Well, food is more important! Let’s socialize food production and distribution first.
Oh, but what happens every time a country tries this? The people running the government get fat and everyone else starves.
George Edward Martinez
Milledgeville
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Don’t socialize Medicare, get rid of it
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Why can’t the commission figure out pool cost?
At the May 15 county commission meeting, the topic of the Baldwin County Swimming Pool again was on the agenda.
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Foster families play a vital role
May is National Foster Care Month, and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the Foster Parents of Baldwin County for the work they do caring for Georgia’s children and families.
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Thank you for sponsoring Weight Loss Challenge
I would be remiss if I didn’t recognize and submit kudos to our caring Milledgeville businesses that sponsored the recently completed “2012 Weight Loss Challenge.”
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Texting while driving bans are dangerous
State laws that ban texting while driving cause more accidents, and should be modified to encourage safety.
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Thank you for support with fundraisers
It is with a very grateful heart that we welcome God's precious gift and answered prayer to us in the person of Willoughby Tatum (Willough) Bracewell.
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Creekside child’s home should be investigated, too
I’ve been watching, listening and reading the news about the incident with the 6-year-old at Creekside school and wish to speak in the defense of the school officials and the police department.
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Voices for Progress set for May 2
Next month, beginning May 2, we will have an opportunity to come together and work as a community in an effort to continue moving Milledgeville-Baldwin County forward.
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HOPE scholarship revisions were not practical
Recent revisions made to the HOPE scholarship are not practical.
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Act in the best interest of Salecia Johnson
As a parent, as a grandparent raising a child; I feel an urgent need to address this latest issue now placing Milledgeville in the national spotlight again — an important issue — and my interest is, indeed, the best interest of the child: 6-year-old first grader Salecia Johnson.
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Many Easter symbols have pagan origins
Eggs, rabbits and hot cross buns are Easter symbols familiar to us all, yet many of us might be shocked or surprised at the real origin and meaning of many of our allegedly “Christian” Easter customs.
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