Healthcare

Given the usual 'man left in hospital hallway for 3 days' stories, Britain has been using ambulances to stow patients - to avoid triggering wait time guarantees. Sound familiar? Here is a good rundown.

This will never surprise me.

Because price is the only signal that permits a market mechanism to work.

In a price controlled, service rationed environ, there is no signal to expand or contract supply.
Combine this with two immutable truths: people are rational economic beings who operate in their own best interests, and, blind adherence to ideology kills people.

And that ideology will always lead to this very outcome.

The puss-i-fication of Canada began as the victim culture expanded to include everyone being a victim of circumstance beyond their control. Whether apologizing to aggrieved persons for things that happened decades, or centuries ago, this action reinforces the notion that we are not personally responsible for our own selves.

Thus...'please government! make it better for me!' expands into every corner of our lives, reducing choice, limiting personal growth, and denying the individual self determination by using choice.

Politicians get along with this perfectly well, because it is on their own self interest to have dependants, and expanding budgets. Little they do is aligned to improve the nation or its' people - their actions are to build a new (dependant) constituency.

Because, at it's bottom, a politician without a budget is nothing.

It ain't the Cons, Libs, or Moonbats that will save and inspire a nation. It is its' people. And ours have been fed the pablum for decades. We are doomed to mediocrity, and to remain an indecisive socialist backwater forever more.
Despite the platitudes and bull that comes from politicians, they'll screw you in a heartbeat if it is in their self interest.

Give up hope. Canada is cooked. And as your aging, loved ones get substandard - even criminally negligent care - take comfort in your heart that the single payor will not change, except for those wealthy enough to make it happen.

Whether the Friends of CBC, the Friends of Medicare, and the countless leftists working diligently in the regional health boards, city halls, and school boards, these ghouls will ensure your freedom is diminished, your hopes dashed, and the system will tithe itself enough cash to stay viable, and maintain continuity. Because, these people have nowhere else to go, they are the tape worm within the animal.

Whether health, multi-culturalism, post secondary education, civil service, etc., we have paid the price for emulating the 19th century English post industrial revolution doctrine of the left. A communism cloaked in egality.

The ultimate price paid by a nation that did not seek and achieve a revolution. And we will forever pay for not declaring ourselves a 'free' people. Think of that next time you pay fealty to our foreign monarch.

Sucker.