Boortz on Healthcare and Fires

Boortz on Healthcare and Fires

The first half of this article is a bit weak, but this last bit right on the money. People don't realize that asking the gov't to handle their health care needs is dangerous and will frustrate the ever-livin' hell out of them. Imagine a health care system that treats you that same way you are treated at the DMV? Great idea, right?

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One more thing about the fires ... more particularly the Cedar fire outside of San Diego. You do know that this fire was first discovered around 5:30 one evening by a helicopter pilot, don't you? At the time the Cedar fire was first discovered it was about half the size of a football field.

Within minutes, another helicopter with a bucket of firefighting slurry slung underneath was on the way to douse this young blazing upstart. That's when government bureaucracy got in the way. That helicopter was a mere five minutes from the Cedar fire when it was called back. There was some sort of regulation on the books in California which stated that aircraft could not be used to attack a fire within 30 minutes of sundown. Sundown was about 20 minutes away, so the helicopter was called back.

Firefighters feel certain that the Cedar fire could have been contained within an hour or so with the help of that one helicopter dump. But, thanks to the workings of government bureaucracy, that fire grew overnight to become the largest brushfire in the history of the state of California – and a murderous one. It killed over 13 people.

Pay attention to this, my friends, for this is the way government makes life-or-death decisions. The rules said no aircraft fighting fires after 30 minutes before sundown. The rules are followed, people die and hundreds of homes are lost.

Right now, the American people are clamoring for more government involvement in their health care. Consider, please, the demonstrated decision-making abilities of government. When it's your life instead of a mountainside of brush that is threatened by disaster, do you want government making the decisions on how the threat is to be fought?