Stop The Madness

A dead-on Letter to the Editor originally published in The Mercury from a Berks County resident who makes a convincing case that you have to be insane to put your faith in government in the face of overwhelming evidence that government will always let you down.

A sane person knows government always fails

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

Programs thrust upon us instituted by the federal government over the years, using our tax dollars, have all had the same end result:

Social Security — 74 years to get it right — broke
Fannie Mae — 71 years to get it right — broke
Freddie Mac — 39 years to get it right — broke
War on poverty — 45 years to get it right — broke
War on drugs — 48 years to get it right — broke
Medicare — 44 years to get it right — broke
Medicaid — 44 years to get it right — broke
U.S. Postal Service — 234 years to get it right —broke
Cash for Clunkers — 1 year to get it right — broke
Federal Housing Administration — 75 years to get it right — broke
Highway Trust fund — 53 years to get it right — broke
Federal Unemployment Trust Fund — 74 years to get it right — broke
Department of Energy — 32 years to get it right. Created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, it has ballooned to 16,000 federal employees with a budget of $24 billion a year. We now import more oil than ever before. Failure.

Now the federal government wants us to believe that this new government-run health care system will end with a different result. If we believe that, we are nuts!

JERRY CROWLEY
Boyertown