I have public insurance now as a disabled vet: I pay for nothing. Congressmen and Senators are vested in Federal health care in five years. They don’t have to worry about paying for insurance or mondo hospital bills. Active military receive free public health care, too. My wife, who had a broken leg some months ago and required surgery, got the whole bill written off (tens of thousands of dollars) because she is my dependent and she is also covered by the Department of Defense. Medicaid and Medicare are of course federal health insurance. Social Security is of course, federal retirement benefits. Public roads are federally funded, too, so are police and fire departments, you don’t have to pay the fire department to put out your house . . .

During colonial days the good roads were mostly privately owned turnpikes. But the Feds made a public option on roads and now there are only a handful of privately owned turnpikes in the US.

But if people want to continue paying companies like AIG that received federal bailout money after squandering everyone’s insurance money, for way overpriced insurance, I say let ‘em. I’m covered. I won’t lose my Federal insurance for losing a job.

I had AIG car insurance when I was stationed overseas, but it ain’t worth the cost of their bailout for cheating their investors.

Have you ever shot your lawyer Uncle Jay? Have you ever worked as a decoy for VP Cheney when they moved him from bunker to bunker?