Thoughts on a Train Wreck

Famous last words of Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), regarding the upcoming Health Care Bill:  “If you like what you’ve got, you get to keep it.  We’re not changing that.”

I am beginning to sense Machiavelli’s tension

This Trojan Horse Prince preemptively spent Achilles’ pension

And Homer would be offended

He would have preferred we spent ourselves

In efforts to cover our vulnerable tendons

And while it can be pensive, it’s even more expensive

To wage a war for the poor by destroying the wealthy

Like fighting for the sick by incriminating the healthy

Without common sense there are no dollars and cents

“Government interventions create unintended consequences that lead to calls for further intervention, and so on into a destructive spiral of more and more government control.” – Ludwig von Mises