The other day I saw a bumper sticker, "Veterans for Obama," affixed to a car with handicap license plates. Assuming the handicap was earned in the service, I wonder what the driver of that vehicle makes of the
latest news from his hero.
In the late 20th Century, America was a land governed by lawyers. They would make their case / suggestion / point and leave it at that. Nowadays we are ruled by Ivy League professors who happen also to be lawyers and they are - of course - more intelligent and diligent than mere attorneys.
So when the proposal is made, "Let the war wounded heal themselves," the old-style politician would have thought his work was done. Brilliant idea, it's on the table, done. But the new class of leader has the facts and figures to prove it will be worthwhile to allow the wounded to heal themselves. He is prepared to argue a full case in the court of public opinion. In this case
we save $540 million if we cut off medical support to veterans. Awesome. Case closed.
You see the difference between an Ivy League law professor and an ordinary attorney? And yes you can put a price on suffering. Juries do it all the time. Don't look so shocked.
Not being a professor, I tend to wonder about how things will be implemented, however.
What will the veteran have to do to get the same level of medical care afforded to civilian Obama voters? The vet could pretend to be an indigent civilian but when the screener asks where the condition arose, he would answer "war" and be disqualified from government assistance. Oops.
The solution appears to be: (1) go to an emergency room (2) speak no English (3) present forged ID. Or, veterans could simply perform back-alley operations on each other.
Whatever their choices, the savings to the government will be substantial. Enough money will be freed up for earmarks, bailouts, federal funding for community activism. Perhaps enough servicemen may still remain motivated enough to safely ferry Obama, Reid, and Pelosi about in their military aircraft of choice.
This government is all about savings - but the
right kind of savings.
The flight of wealthy Obama voters out of the Democratic Party has begun and the GOP is about to be inundated by money and personalities that hail from a pre-1964 political era. That was when liberals of means knew their interests and acted accordingly. This flight from the Democrats will be augmented by a tide of independents who have just now figured out "what it is."
