Bitter Klinger

I know that I have to catch up to modern times ... as defined by Obummer. By that I mean that I and the entire military establishment MUST now accept transgender, cross-dressing soldiers as part of everyday barracks life ... this, according to the latest diktat of our lame duck in the White House ... see: Breitbart Article.

Yes, I do remember how Corporal Klinger, in the MASH award-winning TV series, would frequently dress up as a woman in an attempt to be sent home on a Section 8 code infraction. But that was funny because it was so bizarre ... and Klinger wasn't for-real transgender. Now the bizarre has become normative in a society that has been fundamentally changed according to the twisted mind of our current president.

Not only is military cross-dressing WAACy, it is rubbing the noses of our fighting forces in the bohemian life-styles of the fringes of our society ... apparently the fringes so favored by Obummer. If our president toys with the tradition of our military bending to civilian control to push our men and women in uniform to embrace what, to many, would be unembracable, he is jeopardizing the whole notion of such civilian control. Either that or he is trying to emasculate those who need to be powerful.  Whichever way, it is a foolish leap into the uncertain abyss of social engineering.

I have, in previous posts, discussed how I thought that Obummer would try to punish his minions in his last year in office ... haze us if you will ... see: Hell Year. Unfortunately, I was correct ... and we are clearly in for seven more months of such gratuitous challenges. Whether this will cause this country's people to embrace the maudlin mind set of this man-child is yet to be determined.

Wouldn’t it be Funny …

... if Obamacare caused the United States to return to a free-market economy in health care?  Already many more people have lost their health-care insurance than have gained it as a result of this Harry Reid-Nancy Pelosi bit of screwed-up social engineering … see: Powerline Analysis.  And later this year, when the employer mandate kicks in and many millions more Americans find themselves with the unhappy option of either paying more for less health insurance … they might then chose to go uninsured and suffering the consequence.  And the way “Obamacare is being hollowed-out by government fiat” (a Charles Krauthammer near quote), it is increasingly unlikely that there will actually be any consequences suffered by the uninsured.

The health-care insurance companies allowed the current administration to have its way with them because they thought that they would be able to feast on an additional 45 million customers … and that they could also gouge the many millions more currently-insured who would have to pay more for less as a result of the insurance rewrites caused by Obamacare.  Perceptive people, such as Krauthammer, realize that these two windfalls for the insurance companies are now unlikely to occur … and that a government bailout of their partners-in-sin is quite likely.  So now the Republicans are pushing a bill that would make such a bailout of health-care insurers illegal … see: Fox News Story.  Wouldn’t this be poetic justice?

And wouldn’t it be even sweeter if Obamacare caused the whole health-care industry to once again return to a free market?  Then individuals would be making economic trade-off decisions about their health care without the interference of health-care insurers and the government.  Then the spiraling cost-inflation havoc that this industry-government complex has foisted on our economy might finally be reined-in.  Wouldn't it be funny?